(EPRA)<\/a>, Unep officials took a swipe at the coal plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cThere is a proposed 5,000MW Coal Power Plant in Kilifi and\nyet the government is equally working on a 30 percent emission reduction by\n2030,\u201d Unep officials pointed out during the workshop centred on electric\nmobility policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In June last year, the National Environment\nTribunal (NET) stopped construction of Kenya\u2019s first coal plant \u2013 1,050MW Lamu\nplant \u2013 over environmental concerns about the $2 billion (Sh200 billion)\nproject. Construction was originally planned to start in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In response to the reservations expressed by the global environmental\nagency against the Kilifi coal plant, Kenyan officials said: \u201cEmissions from the\nproposed coal power plant were already factored into the government\u2019s plan to\nhave a 30 percent emissions reduction by 2030.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAccording to vision\n2030, for Kenya to be a middle income industrialized nation, there was a need\nfor 20,000 megawatts. This was revised downward to 17,000 megawatts in order to\nde-carbonize the vision. The Ministry of Environment and Forestry is working\nwith the Ministry of Energy to derive the least cost power for development\nplanning,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Currently, Kenya\u2019s energy\ngeneration mix is over 90 percent green, comprising geothermal, hydropower,\nwind and solar alongside thermal power with the total installed capacity\nstanding at 2,700MW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Kenya still sees the\nneed to further diversify the mix to support its industrialisation ambitions,\nwith coal and nuclear taking a central place in the drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kenya has in the past also indicated interest to build another 960MW coal-fired\npower plant in Kitui where coal deposits have been discovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The mining contract for a section of the Mui coal block had been awarded\nto Chinese firm Fenxi Mining but work is yet to take off. Location of the\nproposed plant near the mining fields is expected to cut transport costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In\n2018, a court suspended the Lamu coal plant for a second time, sending the\ndispute back to the environmental tribunal following a petition from Save Lamu\nNatural Justice. Then the tribunal last year cancelled\nthe environmental impact assessment (EIA) licence that the National Environment\nManagement Authority (Nema) had issued to Amu Power Company Ltd \u2013 the\ndevelopers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The activists reckon that emissions from the plant would pollute Lamu\u2019s pristine air, 21 kilometres from plant, and pose health hazards on an island that is a Unesco World Heritage site and a top tourist destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read also:<\/strong> How KenGen, Centum Missed A Piece Of Turkana Wind Farm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) has raised environmental concerns over Kenya\u2019s plan to include a 5,000MW coal-fired power plant in its future energy mix. During a recent workshop organised…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8798,"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":[89,92],"tags":[405,561,927,1042,1474],"class_list":["post-8797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-responsibility","category-environmental-responsibility","tag-coal-plant","tag-energy-and-petroleum-regulatory-authority","tag-kilifi","tag-national-environment-tribunal","tag-unep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797","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=8797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}