{"id":8160,"date":"2019-10-22T14:09:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T14:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/?p=8160"},"modified":"2019-11-06T08:21:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:21:34","slug":"greenpeace-africa-commends-laikipia-countys-investment-in-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/press\/8160\/greenpeace-africa-commends-laikipia-countys-investment-in-solar\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace Africa commends Laikipia county\u2019s investment in solar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Nairobi, 22 October 2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Greenpeace Africa commends Laikipia county\u2019s move to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/news\/Laikipia-inks-Sh6-billion-solar-energy\/539546-5320346-13ur31nz\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">invest in 40MW solar energy plant<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Investing in clean renewable energy sources will facilitate increased access to modern energy that is essential to Kenya\u2019s human and economic development especially for the majority off-grid communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, Kenya posits Africa\u2019s largest single wind power facility. Investing in more renewable energy projects will provide Kenyans with a much better future, safeguarding people\u2019s livelihoods, while avoiding the toxic impacts of pollution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The development of renewable energy will enable growth of cottage industries that are important for our economy to thrive, creating new jobs, assuring healthier lives and livelihoods and enabling savings in fuel costs for many Kenyans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, renewable energy sources will help Kenya mitigate climate change, especially in this era of climate emergency, while honouring its Paris commitments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ENDS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contact for interviews and more information:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tal Harris, International Communications Coordinator, +221-774643195, tal.harris@greenpeace.org<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greenpeace Africa Newsdesk: nafrica@greenpeace.org<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi, 22 October 2019 Greenpeace Africa commends Laikipia county\u2019s move to invest in 40MW solar energy plant. Investing in clean renewable energy sources will facilitate increased access to modern energy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":8163,"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":"not set","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,102],"tags":[26,46,64],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-8160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-changemycommunity","category-issues","tag-energy","tag-greenpeaceafrica","tag-kenya","p4-page-type-press"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8160","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8160"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8168,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8160\/revisions\/8168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8160"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=8160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}