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Kenya Power HY 2015 PBT up 53%
guru267
#61 Posted : Sunday, February 22, 2015 10:31:53 AM
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murchr wrote:
kryptonite wrote:
murchr wrote:
DtheK wrote:
We should give credit where it's due;the cost of power has dropped as compared to last year,both kplc and kengen are making money and sufficient power is being generated.South Africans i am sure do envy usS.A black outs.


Not yet. Kenya generates just 1900MW as compared to SA's +30,000MW Kenya experiences blackouts just like SA, its only that to South Africans this is foreign.



Those numbers deceive. Right now, despite the +30,000MW generation (it's actually approximately 42,000MW), SA is on power rationing for up to 11 days per month.

This is not the first time South Africans are experiencing rolling blackouts.


Because their plants are old and require some renovation. 1900MW is not enough only around 15% of Kenya is lit up.


@murchr you seem to be living in the past... As at 2014 more than 25% of Kenya is on the grid with plans to take this to 70% by 2020!
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kryptonite
#62 Posted : Sunday, February 22, 2015 3:29:45 PM
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VituVingiSana wrote:
kryptonite wrote:
murchr wrote:
DtheK wrote:
We should give credit where it's due;the cost of power has dropped as compared to last year,both kplc and kengen are making money and sufficient power is being generated.South Africans i am sure do envy usS.A black outs.


Not yet. Kenya generates just 1900MW as compared to SA's +30,000MW Kenya experiences blackouts just like SA, its only that to South Africans this is foreign.



Those numbers deceive. Right now, despite the +30,000MW generation (it's actually approximately 42,000MW), SA is on power rationing for up to 11 days per month.

This is not the first time South Africans are experiencing rolling blackouts.
Damn! Those SA guys have at least 15x our generation capacity!!! No wonder they have huge plants and factories vs our light industrial plants. We have a long way to go!


I concur. Long, long way.
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murchr
#63 Posted : Sunday, February 22, 2015 5:16:25 PM
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guru267 wrote:
murchr wrote:
kryptonite wrote:
murchr wrote:
DtheK wrote:
We should give credit where it's due;the cost of power has dropped as compared to last year,both kplc and kengen are making money and sufficient power is being generated.South Africans i am sure do envy usS.A black outs.


Not yet. Kenya generates just 1900MW as compared to SA's +30,000MW Kenya experiences blackouts just like SA, its only that to South Africans this is foreign.



Those numbers deceive. Right now, despite the +30,000MW generation (it's actually approximately 42,000MW), SA is on power rationing for up to 11 days per month.

This is not the first time South Africans are experiencing rolling blackouts.


Because their plants are old and require some renovation. 1900MW is not enough only around 15% of Kenya is lit up.


@murchr you seem to be living in the past... As at 2014 more than 25% of Kenya is on the grid with plans to take this to 70% by 2020!


When did we add the +10 %?
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KondooEconomist
#64 Posted : Monday, February 23, 2015 12:00:29 PM
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As seen from space, SA is quite 'enlightened', also Tunisia, Northern Algeria and Morocco, we do have quite a long way

VituVingiSana
#65 Posted : Monday, February 23, 2015 4:27:13 PM
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guru267 wrote:
murchr wrote:
kryptonite wrote:
murchr wrote:
DtheK wrote:
We should give credit where it's due;the cost of power has dropped as compared to last year,both kplc and kengen are making money and sufficient power is being generated.South Africans i am sure do envy usS.A black outs.


Not yet. Kenya generates just 1900MW as compared to SA's +30,000MW Kenya experiences blackouts just like SA, its only that to South Africans this is foreign.



Those numbers deceive. Right now, despite the +30,000MW generation (it's actually approximately 42,000MW), SA is on power rationing for up to 11 days per month.

This is not the first time South Africans are experiencing rolling blackouts.


Because their plants are old and require some renovation. 1900MW is not enough only around 15% of Kenya is lit up.


@murchr you seem to be living in the past... As at 2014 more than 25% of Kenya is on the grid with plans to take this to 70% by 2020!

70% by 2020? On paper, not in reality. I am happy to return to this thread on 1 Jan 2021. And an independent (not KPLC-funded) survey!
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innairobi
#66 Posted : Monday, February 23, 2015 5:08:16 PM
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South Africa electricity is swallowed by the huge power-gobbling industries.
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#67 Posted : Monday, February 23, 2015 6:29:55 PM
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South Africa consumes more than half of the total electricity generated in the continent.
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jwatesh
#68 Posted : Tuesday, February 24, 2015 2:45:51 PM
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We need more industries to gobble up power. Glad to hear a couple of diary plants are coming into the mix soon http://www.businessdaily.../-/g3kljdz/-/index.html

plus malls... when this stock issues a higher dividend it will explode
Mart_Consult
#69 Posted : Tuesday, February 24, 2015 5:34:27 PM
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jwatesh wrote:
We need more industries to gobble up power. Glad to hear a couple of diary plants are coming into the mix soon http://www.businessdaily.../-/g3kljdz/-/index.html

plus malls... when this stock issues a higher dividend it will explode


I thought we still have 365 days in a year (except the leap years), no?

Shame on you *Dairy
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VituVingiSana
#70 Posted : Thursday, February 26, 2015 10:08:36 PM
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jwatesh wrote:
We need more industries to gobble up power. Glad to hear a couple of diary plants are coming into the mix soon http://www.businessdaily.../-/g3kljdz/-/index.html

plus malls... when this stock issues a higher dividend it will explode

I thought diary plants are only busy in the last Q of the year...
Greedy when others are fearful. Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase Warren Buffett
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