{"id":8152,"date":"2020-02-19T09:30:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T06:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8152"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:52","slug":"thousands-of-kenyans-to-benefit-from-solar-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/19\/thousands-of-kenyans-to-benefit-from-solar-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands Of Kenyans To Benefit From Solar Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some 250,000 households in 14 counties are set to benefit from a solar electrification programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is after the government partnered with the World Bank to fund the Sh15 billion project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the announcement made by President Uhuru Kenyatta during the opening of the sixth Global Off-Grid Solar Forum 2020 in Nairobi yesterday, 800 public facilities will also be connected to solar power as the government strives to increase power connectivity in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President said the government hopes to make 1.9 million solar-based connections through the Kenya National Electrification Strategy, a programme that was launched in 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/Thousands-of-Kenyans-to-benefit-from-solar-power-project\/1056-5460734-t1e9nuz\/index.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 250,000 households in 14 counties are set to benefit from a solar electrification programme. This is after the government partnered with the World Bank to fund the Sh15 billion&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8153,"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-8152","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\/8152","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=8152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}