How shameful. Over 85% of Kenyans cannot flick on a switch to light to light their homes, yet Kenya is endowed with renewable energy resources that can secure a low carbon and energy secure electrification programme for its people. But it needs the courage of new policy directions. Right now sunny Kenya's energy policy favours a new highly polluting 300MW coal fired power plant for its needs. Meanwhile, cloudy Europe accounts for 82% of the world's solar power generation. There is something surely amiss in the balancing of this equation. Where policy fails, it must be challenged. Look out for the re-launch of solarnet magazine
(info@solarnet-ea.org). The new edition will focus on renewable energy contributions to the national power supply. It is time.
