@ericsson I think you are the one who needs to wake up. so when the jubilee govt is moving around telling people that the geothermal and solar has been commissioned to produce more electricity to bring the cost of stima chini that they are hallucinating. you are the one to wake up bro. 1st world countries eg USA,Canada have over supply of stima and its way cheaper than kenya and guess why its cheaper,well because they have many producers who are trying to be competitive enough on each other for the states to purchase from them,
so continue hallucinating with the theory of "over supply will make it more expensive" but in real world its the other way round but in dreamland is where your thoughts lie

for heavensake can you back it up your statement that oversupply will make it expensive. give me an example of a country that an oversupply has made it expensive. forget about the taxi and driver argument that you had before sir,here we are talking of stima

Kenya power plans to sell 30MW to Rwanda.
Connectivity still below 50% in kenya due to high installation costs.
There is still elements of thermal power in the kenyan energy sources which is expensinve and should be substituted by cheaper renewable energy.
Its better if electricity becomes expensive due to idle capacity than due to fuel charge.
Idle capacity can easily be utilised by increasing connectivity (KPLC already doing so through Gpoba), export to neighboring countries and creation of more industries.

@murchr;
Our problem is how we structure the PPAs vis-a-vis western world.
Secondly the geothermal power being installed was to kick out thermal power.
Western world the generators already recovered their capital so u can't compare with western world.
we killed industries to consume power being generated. Rural electrification demand is so low coz its mostly used for lighting which is a loss to kenya power and can't even consume 40mw
@Sparkly
there is no grid to transmit power from oversupply areas to areas with deficit.

@ericsson - Folks forget that power PRODUCTION goes hand in hand with DISTRIBUTION and CONSUMPTION. Electricity (electrical power) cannot be easily (cost effectively) stored.

The reason thermal plants are used as backup generation is their ability to easily cycle up or down depending on demand.

Elon Musk (through Tesla) are working on Power Packs but these are for small 'home' units for now. Until we have efficient storage, we will have to rely on expensive sources to fill in the gaps.

Rural Consumption - Agreed! Their consumption will increase over time but that's a long-term project that needs GoK subsidies.

Electric cars, electric trains, etc can become major consumers but it will take a while to get these projects built out. Plus these do not come cheap. The hybrid cars are more expensive than petrol/diesel cars. The electric cars are pricier than hybrids. Plus these electric cars need charging stations.

I still don't see how the investor gets screwed up since wanjiku in the city foots the bill. Anyway am of the opinion "Build, they will come". Facebook recently announced that they will be setting up a data-center in some oldtown in Fortworth TX. While everyone was wondering why facebook would invest in a sleepy town, it turned out that the city had commissioned a 200MW wind farm which is still under construction....by the way they intend to gulp it all up. There's no way you'd attract serious investments if you have no capacity.

True, you have to add capacity beforehand

Wee Muciiri, fort Worth time sleepy. What with all the gunshots at night

Hahaha....could be cowboys chasing cattle rustlers