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Kenya Power would lose out due to inefficiency and corruption.
Rank: Member Joined: 2/20/2007 Posts: 359
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I have often wondered how Kenya can develop the energy distribution sector while relying on a monopoly, Kenya Powerless.
In the days of Telkom only, a phone was for the elite. A mobile phone was for the tycoons and a satellite phone was unheard of.
I submit if Kenya wants to be wired it must introduce compe to KP. And while at it,privatise and do likewise to water distribution and supply.
Otherwise, even Airports, industries and hospitals, lol, will always bow down to Kenya Power. Not very funny using candles and torches to welcome tourists as if to suggest we live on trees.
Where I am, there are numerous levels of power distribution and there is competition at every level. Switching utility companies is as easy as number portability.
We did it with telecoms and outperformed even developed countries, so what are we waiting for?
Even KP shareholders would agree, no?
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 4/16/2010 Posts: 906 Location: Nairobi
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Yes, what are you waiting for slykat? Introduce a competitor to the market NOW. I will cheer you on, promise.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 12/9/2010 Posts: 894 Location: Nairobi
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competition is always nice coz it increases the level of efficiency. i fondly remember the days of reverse calls and panctual appointment since you wont reach the other person. @slykat, kindly elaborate on how its easy to switch power providers and who owns the infrastracture. Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
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Rank: Member Joined: 2/20/2007 Posts: 359
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KenyanLyrics wrote:Yes, what are you waiting for slykat? Introduce a competitor to the market NOW. I will cheer you on, promise. I wish I could...this would be for highly capitalized companies or the Chinese, as u know cheeky. There is a huge unserviced mkt and the serviced one is thoroughly disaffected. But there would first be need for a new policy and regulatory framework to divide licenses geographically and/or nationally with supply in mind. Though it is not on the cards yet, consumers will eventually demand it and that is when KP will be exposed as the inefficient monopoly it is.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/2/2011 Posts: 4,818 Location: -1.2107, 36.8831
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Strictly speeaking, there is monopoly here! Buy a generator and generate your own power in your house! Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.” ― Rashi
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Rank: Elder Joined: 11/27/2007 Posts: 3,604
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Becase of the high installation cost of the power sector it is very hard to get a competitor because KPLC (note the acronym) has some un due advantage. We are doing so first by separating the transmission to KENATCO and with this a competitor who comes in now fights for the distribution. We will be there sooner than you think, it has started with the rebranding. African parents don't know how to say sorry.. the closest you will get to a sorry is a 'have you eaten'
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/21/2010 Posts: 6,184 Location: nairobi
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Not in the near future,learn to stay with kenya power for the next 30yrs. "Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning."
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Rank: Member Joined: 2/20/2007 Posts: 359
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Tommy wrote:competition is always nice coz it increases the level of efficiency. i fondly remember the days of reverse calls and panctual appointment since you wont reach the other person. @slykat, kindly elaborate on how its easy to switch power providers and who owns the infrastracture. am away from my comp but basically the customer selects from a nr of suppliers some of whom r resellers.they have different tariffs.u switch online but in reality nothing changes. Only that ur tariff and ur new utility co is anr one. U can search 'electricity distribution' on wiki
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Rank: Member Joined: 2/20/2007 Posts: 359
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New n old infrastracture are open to lease by other suppliers..
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Rank: Member Joined: 2/20/2007 Posts: 359
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Eg. If Kenya were liberalized in the same way, I ltd cud win the tender to buy in bulk all the elec eg from mumias..lease infrastracture from kp and sell to users at tariffs lower than kp's.I cud manage the end user myself or subcontract a utility co. My customers could switch to kp or others charging less or more ...the infrastructure remains intact
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Rank: Member Joined: 5/31/2011 Posts: 250
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slykat wrote:Otherwise, even Airports, industries and hospitals, lol, will always bow down to Kenya Power. Not very funny using candles and torches to welcome tourists as if to suggest we live on trees.
 Reminds me one time while in India, an Indian asked, "I hear you people in Africa live on trees?" I replied tongue in cheek, "Yeah vee do, Indian High Commission tallest tree." You lose money chasing women, but you never lose women chasing money - NAS
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/9/2009 Posts: 6,592 Location: Nairobi
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Small problem, all they need to do is replace the MD with an MJ, King James or a Mugo Kibati like and the 'assumed' confidence and share price will be northward bound.
BBI will solve it :)
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Rank: Member Joined: 12/2/2009 Posts: 286 Location: Nairobi
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At corporate level, it will take a while before competition comes in. At individual level though, you can reduce your reliance to KP (or KPLC) to the minimum possible. Install a green energy solution at home (solar, or wind or bio); know a colleague who has done that and only switches on KPLC one day a week! My project for 2012! That way you become independent of Kenya Power unless the airport is affected and you were flying in/out :) The laudable is more often than not rendered laughable by overclaim
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 4/16/2010 Posts: 906 Location: Nairobi
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@Slykat so you came here just to shout at the top of your voice and shake your fists? Bure kabisa! We all know how this will end.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/9/2009 Posts: 6,592 Location: Nairobi
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Barrywhite wrote: Install a green energy solution at home (solar, or wind or bio); know a colleague who has done that and only switches on KPLC one day a week! My project for 2012!
I'm also very interested and I can't stand the blackouts. Please if you find out who installs and how much let us know.
BBI will solve it :)
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Rank: New-farer Joined: 2/22/2011 Posts: 41
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Give me 1000 acre farm with lots of cows, I gurantee you I will give Kenya Power lots of headaches and migranes. Or better yet, give me the whole of Central Province and I will distribute that electricity for free to each household.
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Rank: Member Joined: 2/20/2007 Posts: 359
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KenyanLyrics wrote:@Slykat so you came here just to shout at the top of your voice and shake your fists? Bure kabisa! We all know how this will end. Yes we all know how this ends up... In massive power rationing and affected industrial production.
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Rank: Member Joined: 2/20/2007 Posts: 359
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KenyanLyrics wrote:@Slykat so you came here just to shout at the top of your voice and shake your fists? Bure kabisa! We all know how this will end. Most of u above laughed off sarcastically the notion, let alone the possibility, that one day this dark monopoly would end. One year later http://standardmedia.co....-Power-monopoly-at-risk
http://www.standardmedia...mp;articleID=2000056144
Yaaaaay! The last obstacle to economic revolution in Kenya to be removed.  bomboclat wrote:Give me 1000 acre farm with lots of cows, I gurantee you I will give Kenya Power lots of headaches and migranes. Or better yet, give me the whole of Central Province and I will distribute that electricity for free to each household. Now go for Central Kenya.
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Rank: Chief Joined: 3/24/2010 Posts: 6,779 Location: Black Africa
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The beginning of its end? GOD BLESS YOUR LIFE
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/4/2009 Posts: 10,703 Location: NAIROBI
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This is just somebody's opinion.Kenya Power ain't going anywhere. Why did the gava increase its shareholding to above 50% for the company in Dec 2010. It will still be there even in 2050. Wealth is built through a relatively simple equation
Wealth=Income + Investments - Lifestyle
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