{"id":1390,"date":"2019-06-12T09:53:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T09:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2025-03-26T22:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T22:50:09","slug":"kenya-doesnt-need-coal-new-report-reaffirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/fr\/kenya-doesnt-need-coal-new-report-reaffirms\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya doesn&#8217;t need coal, Report reaffirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new report on the proposed Lamu coal plant in Kenya reveals that the project is a huge mistake in terms of investments, \u00a0excessive power generation and electricity costs for consumers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The report entitled <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ieefa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/The-Proposed-Lamu-Coal-Project_June-2019.pdf\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Proposed Lamu Coal Plant: The Wrong Choice for Kenya<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> presented on t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">he10th of June in Nairobi cautioned that the project would be \u2018<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">locking the country into a 25-year deal at a cost to consumers of more than US$9 billion, even if the plant never generates any power\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1391 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/afrika-vuka\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2019\/06\/Picture1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"974\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2019\/06\/Picture1.png 974w, https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2019\/06\/Picture1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2019\/06\/Picture1-768x575.png 768w, https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2019\/06\/Picture1-430x322.png 430w, https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2019\/06\/Picture1-20x15.png 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 974px) 100vw, 974px\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some of the highlights of the report which was compiled by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amu Power\u2019s claims for the cost of Lamu-generated electricity are unrealistically low, based on outdated costs for the imported coal that will be burned and on overly optimistic assumptions about how much electricity the plant will generate.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Using more realistic assumptions about future Lamu generation and coal costs, electricity from the plant could cost as much as 75 cents per kilowatt-hour (KWh), on average, during the years 2024 to 2037\u2014more than 10 times what the plant\u2019s proponents have claimed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This estimate does not include costs for port upgrades that would be required to bring coal to the plant, nor construction of the transmission infrastructure needed to distribute the power; the costs of these projects would add significantly to Lamu\u2019s overall impact on electricity consumers and taxpayers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The report also reaffirmed that the country doesn\u2019t need any coal generation project, but should rather actively explore its abundant renewable resources to satisfy the likely growth scenarios.<\/span><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1392 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/afrika-vuka\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2019\/06\/Picture2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"974\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2019\/06\/Picture2.png 974w, https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2019\/06\/Picture2-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2019\/06\/Picture2-768x455.png 768w, https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2019\/06\/Picture2-430x255.png 430w, https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2019\/06\/Picture2-20x12.png 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 974px) 100vw, 974px\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/business\/article\/2001329467\/lamu-coal-project-put-on-back-burner\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reacting to that release<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the Kenyan government said it intends \u201cto delay the Lamu coal-fired power plant to avoid a situation where Kenyans will end up paying for unused power if demand fails to keep up with the project\u2019s output\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe coal plant will be built in the next four to five years as part of the Government strategy to delay new power over cost concerns\u2019 said the Energy Principal Secretary Joseph Njoroge <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a great move in this campaign which has been going on for over five years. Lamu residents, activists, scientists and other social justice groups had fiercely challenged the project, pointing out its numerous dangerous impacts in terms of people\u2019s health, livelihoods and ecosystems.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Author: Rukiya Khamis.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New report says that Kenya doesn\u2019t need any coal generation project, but should rather actively explore its abundant renewable resources to satisfy the likely growth scenarios.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":1391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,73,43,322],"tags":[106,107,74,75],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-featured","category-kenya","category-news","category-post","tag-coal-plant","tag-decoalonize-org","tag-kenya","tag-lamu"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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