{"id":3289,"date":"2019-06-25T08:24:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T08:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3289"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:22","slug":"why-kenya-should-stop-investment-in-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/25\/why-kenya-should-stop-investment-in-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Kenya Should Stop Investment In Coal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By AMOS WAMENYA,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It is estimated that only a third of the total Kenyan population has access to electricity.<\/strong> These figures are higher in the urban areas with notable reduction in the rural off-grid regions. Statistics estimate that only about 6.7 percent of the rural population in Kenya has access to electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a World\nBank report released in 2017, this places Kenya among the 20 countries with the\nlowest electrification rate worldwide. Access to electricity makes communities\nsafer, helps small businesses thrive, improves agricultural production and\npowers essential services such as schools, communication and health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Delivering policies that\nsimultaneously ensure universal access to affordable energy services and\nprotect the environment is one of the most formidable challenges facing many\ngovernments and industry in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the Kenyan government to\nprovide the much needed electricity for the economy to thrive, there is a need\nfor increased production especially for the rural off-grid populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Existing energy supply is\nheavily and unsustainably dependent upon hydroelectric power, and meeting the\nenergy demands needed for progress means that Kenya must find new ways to provide\ncrucial energy services to its people\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/analysis\/letters\/Why-Kenya-should-stop-investment-in-coal\/4307714-5170000-dpoj3s\/index.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By AMOS WAMENYA, It is estimated that only a third of the total Kenyan population has access to electricity. These figures are higher in the urban areas with notable reduction&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}