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kmucheke
#581 Posted : Monday, November 15, 2021 11:05:56 AM
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Ericsson wrote:
kmucheke wrote:
State blocks Kenya Power from hiring McKinsey as adviser

After reading House of Lies : How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time I'm convinced that there is no way management consultants can save a poorly run, heavily indebted, corrupt ridden organisation like Kenya Power.

Furthermore are these management consultants experienced in running a business like KP in the environment and condition it is currently in? Yes McKinsey and BCG are known to hire some of the brightest and sharpest brains, but in this case just like KQ, I don't think anything will come out of it. But I maybe wrong...




There is no political will to turnaround Kenya power


Too many vested interests to allow any major radical shift. The timing is also bad considering it's toward the elections.
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Ericsson
#582 Posted : Monday, December 13, 2021 12:58:39 PM
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https://www.businessdail...-promise-failed-3650604

Kenya power to bear the burden of reducing their system losses to avoid a revenue fall as a result of a 15% reduction in electricity prices
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sparkly
#583 Posted : Tuesday, December 14, 2021 2:59:10 PM
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Ericsson wrote:
https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/economy/why-uhuru-electricity-price-promise-failed-3650604

Kenya power to bear the burden of reducing their system losses to avoid a revenue fall as a result of a 15% reduction in electricity prices


Where is the reduction? My tokens cost has gone up. I only get 38 units for KShs 1,000.
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Ericsson
#584 Posted : Tuesday, December 14, 2021 3:10:28 PM
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sparkly wrote:
Ericsson wrote:
https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/economy/why-uhuru-electricity-price-promise-failed-3650604

Kenya power to bear the burden of reducing their system losses to avoid a revenue fall as a result of a 15% reduction in electricity prices


Where is the reduction? My tokens cost has gone up. I only get 38 units for KShs 1,000.


Reduction will be effected on Christmas Eve.
For now unakamuliwa proper.
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kawi254
#585 Posted : Tuesday, December 14, 2021 3:37:13 PM
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Ericsson wrote:
sparkly wrote:
Ericsson wrote:
https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/economy/why-uhuru-electricity-price-promise-failed-3650604

Kenya power to bear the burden of reducing their system losses to avoid a revenue fall as a result of a 15% reduction in electricity prices


Where is the reduction? My tokens cost has gone up. I only get 38 units for KShs 1,000.


Reduction will be effected on Christmas Eve.
For now unakamuliwa proper.


i think the promised 15% reduction will be due to savings from expired Tsavo power PPA in September 2021 (-74MW thermal power off) and Muhoroni gas turbine PPA expiring Dec 2021(=-56MW thermal).

Taxes & levies make up bulk of electricity bill. Why can't they reduce this and get people hooked to using more electricity first? We wanted 5000mw but energy authority spent resources telling people to save energy and install solar heaters in the place of electric heaters...now we complain we are paying for excess unused generation capacity.
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Ericsson
#586 Posted : Tuesday, December 14, 2021 5:56:59 PM
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kawi254 wrote:
Ericsson wrote:
sparkly wrote:
Ericsson wrote:
https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/economy/why-uhuru-electricity-price-promise-failed-3650604

Kenya power to bear the burden of reducing their system losses to avoid a revenue fall as a result of a 15% reduction in electricity prices


Where is the reduction? My tokens cost has gone up. I only get 38 units for KShs 1,000.


Reduction will be effected on Christmas Eve.
For now unakamuliwa proper.


i think the promised 15% reduction will be due to savings from expired Tsavo power PPA in September 2021 (-74MW thermal power off) and Muhoroni gas turbine PPA expiring Dec 2021(=-56MW thermal).

Taxes & levies make up bulk of electricity bill. Why can't they reduce this and get people hooked to using more electricity first? We wanted 5000mw but energy authority spent resources telling people to save energy and install solar heaters in the place of electric heaters...now we complain we are paying for excess unused generation capacity.


Reduction of taxes and levies that one treasury ruled out plus it would have affected the terms of engagement with IMF.

Installation of solar heaters was a way of guys making money after their firms were the ones importing the solar heaters.
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Ericsson
#587 Posted : Tuesday, December 14, 2021 5:59:32 PM
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kawi254 wrote:
Ericsson wrote:
sparkly wrote:
Ericsson wrote:
https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/economy/why-uhuru-electricity-price-promise-failed-3650604

Kenya power to bear the burden of reducing their system losses to avoid a revenue fall as a result of a 15% reduction in electricity prices


Where is the reduction? My tokens cost has gone up. I only get 38 units for KShs 1,000.


Reduction will be effected on Christmas Eve.
For now unakamuliwa proper.


i think the promised 15% reduction will be due to savings from expired Tsavo power PPA in September 2021 (-74MW thermal power off) and Muhoroni gas turbine PPA expiring Dec 2021(=-56MW thermal).

Taxes & levies make up bulk of electricity bill. Why can't they reduce this and get people hooked to using more electricity first? We wanted 5000mw but energy authority spent resources telling people to save energy and install solar heaters in the place of electric heaters...now we complain we are paying for excess unused generation capacity.



Kengen will get a revenue dent in the second half since they do not have a replacement of Muhoroni gas turbine.
Olkaria I unit 6 of 83MW will be connected to the grid in end of Q1/Q2 of 2022
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Ericsson
#588 Posted : Tuesday, December 14, 2021 6:25:56 PM
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kawi254 wrote:
Ericsson wrote:
sparkly wrote:
Ericsson wrote:
https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/economy/why-uhuru-electricity-price-promise-failed-3650604

Kenya power to bear the burden of reducing their system losses to avoid a revenue fall as a result of a 15% reduction in electricity prices


Where is the reduction? My tokens cost has gone up. I only get 38 units for KShs 1,000.


Reduction will be effected on Christmas Eve.
For now unakamuliwa proper.


i think the promised 15% reduction will be due to savings from expired Tsavo power PPA in September 2021 (-74MW thermal power off) and Muhoroni gas turbine PPA expiring Dec 2021(=-56MW thermal).

Taxes & levies make up bulk of electricity bill. Why can't they reduce this and get people hooked to using more electricity first? We wanted 5000mw but energy authority spent resources telling people to save energy and install solar heaters in the place of electric heaters...now we complain we are paying for excess unused generation capacity.


The next PPA expiring is Kengen Kipevu I thermal power (60MW) in 2023.
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Kausha
#589 Posted : Thursday, December 23, 2021 7:27:59 AM
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Ericsson wrote:
kawi254 wrote:
Ericsson wrote:
sparkly wrote:
Ericsson wrote:
https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/economy/why-uhuru-electricity-price-promise-failed-3650604

Kenya power to bear the burden of reducing their system losses to avoid a revenue fall as a result of a 15% reduction in electricity prices


Where is the reduction? My tokens cost has gone up. I only get 38 units for KShs 1,000.


Reduction will be effected on Christmas Eve.
For now unakamuliwa proper.


i think the promised 15% reduction will be due to savings from expired Tsavo power PPA in September 2021 (-74MW thermal power off) and Muhoroni gas turbine PPA expiring Dec 2021(=-56MW thermal).

Taxes & levies make up bulk of electricity bill. Why can't they reduce this and get people hooked to using more electricity first? We wanted 5000mw but energy authority spent resources telling people to save energy and install solar heaters in the place of electric heaters...now we complain we are paying for excess unused generation capacity.


The next PPA expiring is Kengen Kipevu I thermal power (60MW) in 2023.


Shame on you Doubt there will be much traction here. Let us revisit the 5,000MW production planning against forecast demand. There appears to have been a back of the envelope arithmetic used or did some one use the pent up demand in Telco pre 2000 as a proxy for the potential growth in power uptake by citizens? The 5000MW forecast production was mischevious and we cautioned it on this platform. Therefore even after shutting down Tsavo and Muhoroni, we still will be holding about 40% surplus capacity. I doubt we will shut down Muhoroni. Some of these thermals are stand by generators for the other plants.
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Ericsson
#590 Posted : Friday, December 24, 2021 3:50:54 AM
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Kausha wrote:
Ericsson wrote:
kawi254 wrote:
Ericsson wrote:
sparkly wrote:
Ericsson wrote:
https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/economy/why-uhuru-electricity-price-promise-failed-3650604

Kenya power to bear the burden of reducing their system losses to avoid a revenue fall as a result of a 15% reduction in electricity prices


Where is the reduction? My tokens cost has gone up. I only get 38 units for KShs 1,000.


Reduction will be effected on Christmas Eve.
For now unakamuliwa proper.


i think the promised 15% reduction will be due to savings from expired Tsavo power PPA in September 2021 (-74MW thermal power off) and Muhoroni gas turbine PPA expiring Dec 2021(=-56MW thermal).

Taxes & levies make up bulk of electricity bill. Why can't they reduce this and get people hooked to using more electricity first? We wanted 5000mw but energy authority spent resources telling people to save energy and install solar heaters in the place of electric heaters...now we complain we are paying for excess unused generation capacity.


The next PPA expiring is Kengen Kipevu I thermal power (60MW) in 2023.


Shame on you Doubt there will be much traction here. Let us revisit the 5,000MW production planning against forecast demand. There appears to have been a back of the envelope arithmetic used or did some one use the pent up demand in Telco pre 2000 as a proxy for the potential growth in power uptake by citizens? The 5000MW forecast production was mischevious and we cautioned it on this platform. Therefore even after shutting down Tsavo and Muhoroni, we still will be holding about 40% surplus capacity. I doubt we will shut down Muhoroni. Some of these thermals are stand by generators for the other plants.


With the activation of the new 220KV line by KETRACO, Muhoroni thermal power plant is no longer needed
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