{"id":7196,"date":"2019-06-14T09:34:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T09:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/?p=7196"},"modified":"2019-11-06T08:21:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:21:52","slug":"greenpeace-2019-20-budget-fails-to-cater-for-kenyans-electricity-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/press\/7196\/greenpeace-2019-20-budget-fails-to-cater-for-kenyans-electricity-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace: 2019-20 Budget Fails to Cater For Kenyan\u2019s Electricity Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Nairobi, 14 June 2019 \u2013Responding to the budget speech by Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich, Greenpeace Africa\u2019s Senior Campaign Manager, Renee Olende has said:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe Ministry of Energy has failed Kenyans yet again. The budget has a narrow focus; catering for manufacturers will not ensure adequate accessibility and efficient supply of electricity to urban, peri-urban and rural communities. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cApproximately 40% of Kenya\u2019s population has access to electricity, in contrast, only 15% of rural inhabitants benefit from electricity supply. Even in urban areas, \u00a0the quality of power is low and supply is unreliable. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cKenya&#8217;s renewable energy potential must be leveraged (wind, solar, geothermal). Solar and wind power are rapidly getting cheaper and more abundant \u2013 that they are on track to entirely <\/span><span class=\"s2\">replace<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">fossil fuels worldwide within two decades. In Kenya, 75% percent of the energy used for electrical generation comes from renewable energy with (47% percent in Geothermal, 27.4% percent Hydro and 0.6% percent in wind).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cGreenpeace Africa is calling on the government of Kenya to stop any investment in coal and rather, <\/span><span class=\"s4\">invest in a robust decentralized system that will allow for better access of electricity to both industries and households in <\/span><span class=\"s1\">urban, peri-urban and rural communities.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Media contact:<\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Hellen Dena, Greenpeace Africa\u2019s Communication Officer, <a href=\"mailto:hdena@greenpeace.org\"><span class=\"s5\">hdena@greenpeace.org<\/span><\/a>, +254 717 104144<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi, 14 June 2019 \u2013Responding to the budget speech by Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich, Greenpeace Africa\u2019s Senior Campaign Manager, Renee Olende has said: \u201cThe Ministry of Energy has failed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":7197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,26,64],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-7196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-protecttheenvironment","tag-coal","tag-energy","tag-kenya","p4-page-type-press"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7200,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196\/revisions\/7200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7196"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=7196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}