{"id":6490,"date":"2019-11-11T09:17:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T06:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6490"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:40","slug":"counties-critical-in-upscaling-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/11\/counties-critical-in-upscaling-renewable-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Counties Critical In Upscaling Renewable Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Daniel Njoroge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nine million households have access\nto off-grid energy, shows a Ministry of Energy survey, as renewable energy\naccounts for about 70 per cent of Kenya\u2019s installed capacity compared to the\nglobal average of 24 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Energy Act, 2019 gives further\nmandate to counties to be critical entities in preserving universal access to\nelectricity, inform county energy plans and synthesize the development and\nreview of national energy plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That demonstrates the shift in the\nenergy delivery responsibility from the national to county governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a need to take advantage of\nthe enormous renewable energy to bring down the cost of electricity, especially\nin rural areas, as the country moves towards 100 per cent transition to green\nenergy by 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Counties are directly responsible for this; hence, an urgent need to build institutional capacity at that level to develop sustainable renewable energy plans\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/oped\/opinion\/Counties-critical-in-upscaling-renewable-energy\/440808-5344438-1jaldiz\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daniel Njoroge Nine million households have access to off-grid energy, shows a Ministry of Energy survey, as renewable energy accounts for about 70 per cent of Kenya\u2019s installed capacity&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6491,"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-6490","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\/6490","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=6490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}