Hatimaye Kenya kuanza kuwa na kampuni binafsi za umeme, mwsho wa ukiritimba wa KPLC

Hatimaye Kenya kuanza kuwa na kampuni binafsi za umeme, mwsho wa ukiritimba wa KPLC

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Hii ni hatua chanya, maana usambazaj wa umeme utaishia kuwa ushindani baina ya makampuni, tofauti na ilivyo sasa ambapo tupo chini ya monopoly/ukiritimba wa KPLC. Hivyo hii itarahisisha umeme wa uhakika.
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One more private company has applied for approval to enter the electricity retail market in a move that could soon end Kenya Power’s monopoly.

The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) says in a gazette notice that a local firm, PowerGen, last month applied for a licence to generate and supply electricity to households and small-scale business premises and that the application is currently under review.

“The project consists of distribution networks, service lines and other wiring for the supply of electricity to households and small commercial establishments,” the ERC says in the notice dated March 7.

American companies Powerhive and Vulcan, owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, are the other private entities in the Kenyan market that sell small-scale solar power directly to consumers through mini-grids.

Their operations have, however, had little impact on Kenya Power’s monopoly of the electricity retail market.

Mr Allen, who runs 10 mini-power grids in Kajiado and Samburu as an impact investment venture, has recently revealed plans to partner with a local investor to expand his operations after abandoning initial plans to sell off his business.

The Microsoft co-founder, who is currently ranked one of the richest persons in the world with a net worth of $21.7 billion (Sh2.2 trillion), is one of the best known social impact investors.

Kenya Power’s monopoly is also threatened by the presence in Parliament of an Energy Bill that provides for the licensing of other electricity distributors and retailers — in a move that aims to increase competition and improve the quality of service.

READ: Bid to end Kenya Power monopoly revived in House

Kenya Power has recently come under attack over steep rises in consumer power bills as well as numerous power outages blamed on poor infrastructure.

The ERC in the notice is seeking input from members of the public before determining the fate of the latest application.


PowerGen is seeking a licence to connect consumers in the Unilever tea estate in Kericho, and other off-grid areas through solar powered mini-grids.

Kenya Power has over six million customers and remains the principal supplier and seller of electricity in the country.

The Nairobi bourse-listed utility firm buys electricity from producers such as KenGen for onward sale to customers.

The company’s half-year net profit for the period to last December dropped 30 per cent to Sh2.9 billion, saddled by heavy cost of financing debt. The distributor was early this month spared further competition after the ERC rejected power producer KenGen’s bid to start selling power directly to large consumers.

Energy ministry officials last November said the retail power market cannot be fully opened up — at least not in the next five years — for lack of a framework and an underdeveloped transmission network.

Energy Principal Secretary Joseph Njoroge said market liberalisation would weaken Kenya Power’s finances and make it default on its contractual obligations of buying specified amounts of power from producers since the entry of other players would eat into its retail market share.

Mr Njoroge said competition would force the power distributor to pay hefty fines to producers for power not used as its demand base narrows with the expected shifting of homes and businesses to other service providers.

Mini-grids, especially those that rely on solar-powered sources, are seen to offer Africa the shortest route to lighting off-grid towns. The small networks involve small power plants and shorter distribution lines that connect a limited number of customers outside the scope of the national power transmission network.

In 2016, Powerhive, which first set shop in Kisii, set a target of connecting 100,000 homes in western Kenya yearly.

Mini-grids work well in areas with a dense concentration of homes since the small grids cover short distances.

Customer charges are, however, higher than those for electricity distributed from the national grid by Kenya Power, partly because customers do not pay upfront charges for connection to mini-grids.

The higher tariffs are also due to the fact that mini-grids lack economies of scale associated with the central power transmission in the national grid which is subject to regulatory interventions, ensuring lower tariffs.

Besides the proposal to open up the power retail market, the Energy Bill also takes away Kenya Power’s role of buying power and awards it to an independent player for the utility firm to concentrate on fixing its ageing infrastructure for efficient distribution.

Dubbed a system operator, the candidate player has been identified to be Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (Ketraco).

New entrants seek to end Kenya Power’s monopoly
 
Hiyo inamaana gharama zitaongezeka na taifa liko hatarini kuingia kwenye giza pindi muwekezaji atapo amua kuzima mitambo. Pia KPLC itahujumiwa nahao wawekezaji.
 
Hongereni majirani, sisi tulianza na kauli mbiu ya " tuna utajiri wa gesi, mgao wa umeme utakuwa historia....; sasa tumekuja na mradi wa Stiglers George....
 
Advantage ya monopoly kwenye huduma kama za maji na umeme nikushusha gharama nakuhakikisha huduma inafika kwa wote. Muwekezaji atapeleka umeme atakapo hona atapata faida kwa hiyo sehemukama ushago hamto pata umeme kwa muda muafaka
 
IROKOS said:
Hongereni majirani, sisi tulianza na kauli mbiu ya " tuna utajiri wa gesi, mgao wa umeme utakuwa historia....; sasa tumekuja na mradi wa Stiglers George....
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Hivi yule prof. Muhongo mbona mlimtimua, niliona kama alikua ameanza kudhibiti hali na kuzuia mgao wa kila siku Bongo.
 
It's a GOOD move. But nature of the service hinder the so called perfect competition.
 
Nimegundua kufikiri kwa wakenya wakipindi cha Kibaki na Uhuru nitofauti sana. Mtu anafungua thread nakujisifu kwa kitu cha kipuuzi sana

Hivi nikitolea mfano wahuduma za Afya hapo Kenya. Gharama za huduma ya Afya between Private na Government ipi iko juu. Naje kwanini zipo juu??

Umuhimu waku monopolize huduma kama umeme na maji serikali huwa inalengo lakushusha gharama za wananchi kwenye hizi huduma nakufanikisha upatikanaji wa huduma kwa kila mtu
This is real a failed state in the making.
Sihuku wawekezaji waumeme kwenye sector ya umeme tuna waondoa kwa sababu wamekuwa wakisababisha ungezeko la bei kwenye umeme.
 
mulisaaa said:
Good move towards what?
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Wewe unajua watu wanakupuuza maana unafyatuka kama mtu aliyekosa njia, kuna vitu vingine vya kubaki kimya badala ya kujiaibisha, nchi nyingi zilizoendelea zina zaidi ya kampuni moja ya huduma ya usambazaji wa umeme. Wewe na akili za umaskini wa Kitanzania unaona uendelee kufungiwa kwenye ukiritimba wa TANESCO ambao hawakomi migao kila siku.

Kampuni ya simu enzi ile ilikua inamilikiwa na serikali, baada ya anga kuachiwa, leo hii tunaona ushindani unaohakikisha huduma inapatikana mpaka vijijini. Kwa mara ya kwanza acha kufikiria kama maskini wa huo mfumo wenu wa ujamaa.
 
MK254 said:
Elaborate your 'but' tujadili kitaalam...
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"Electricity and water are a human right! Electricity is a public good, not a commodity!”
Kenya is at risk once they take that path. Private companies can play a small part in that part but not became service providers.

You do not need to have rocket science to understand that. Hayo ni maajabu. Dunia simama nishuke.
 
MK254 said:
Wewe unajua watu wanakupuuza maana unafyatuka kama mtu aliyekosa njia, kuna vitu vingine vya kubaki kimya badala ya kujiaibisha, nchi nyingi zilizoendelea zina zaidi ya kampuni moja ya huduma ya usambazaji wa umeme. Wewe na akili za umaskini wa Kitanzania unaona uendelee kufungiwa kwenye ukiritimba wa TANESCO ambao hawakomi migao kila siku.

Kampuni ya simu enzi ile ilikua inamilikiwa na serikali, baada ya anga kuachiwa, leo hii tunaona ushindani unaohakikisha huduma inapatikana mpaka vijijini. Kwa mara ya kwanza acha kufikiria kama maskini wa huo mfumo wenu wa ujamaa.
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Kwanza mimi watu hawani puuzi labda wewe. Humu ndani uko na thread ambazo hazina hata reply moja labda uji reply.
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Kuhusu kampuni za simu umewahi fanya case study ya Ethiopia ambayo inatumia kampuni moja ya serikali.? Unajua kupitia faida ya kampuni ya simu Ethiopia imeweza kufanikisha ujenzi wa miradi mikubwa kama reli na dam kwa kutumia hiyo faida. Ni mradi gani umeweza kutekelezwa na faida kutoka Safaricom. Ethiopia Telecom inatengeneza hadi faida ya $1billion nakuipatia serikali kutekeleza miundombinu.

Pia kuhusu Europe soma hii:

European Union rules promote liberalising markets and discourage privatisation. However, there may be ways around the rules. In Germany, many local municipalities own or part-own utility companies for the local community. In France, over 90% of the market is controlled by state-owned or backed entities.
 
mulisaaa said:
Nimegundua kufikiri kwa wakenya wakipindi cha Kibaki na Uhuru nitofauti sana. Mtu anafungua thread nakujisifu kwa kitu cha kipuuzi sana

Hivi nikitolea mfano wahuduma za Afya hapo Kenya. Gharama za huduma ya Afya between Private na Government ipi iko juu. Naje kwanini zipo juu??

Umuhimu waku monopolize huduma kama umeme na maji serikali huwa inalengo lakushusha gharama za wananchi kwenye hizi huduma nakufanikisha upatikanaji wa huduma kwa kila mtu
This is real a failed state in the making.
Sihuku wawekezaji waumeme kwenye sector ya umeme tuna waondoa kwa sababu wamekuwa wakisababisha ungezeko la bei kwenye umeme.
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Wakenya wanatakiwa waelewe kuwa sula la UMEME ni sula na National Security. Huwezi hand-over kazi hiyo yote to the private company. Ukisoma vile hapo juu wanasema private companies zinasambaza umeme kwa households and small commercial establishments, nothing about rural areas. Given the nature of capitalism, these companies will never supply electricity to the villages where there is little or no profit margins. Hawajaeleza vya kutosha source of electricity and how much is going to cost. Sisi Tanzania tumepigwa sana na private electrical companies with capacity charges na makampuni haya yameshindwa kufikia lengo. As I have highlighted that the power issue is an issue of National Security, it is of significance for a government to take the lead. Sisemi kwakuwa ni Mtanzania bali ukiangalia kwa sasa jinsi Serikali ya Tanzania inavyosambaza umeme vijijini kote kwa speed ya hali ya juu ni jambo la kuigwa. Serikali ya TZ iliwashawishi Watanzia wasidai fidia ya maeneo yao yatakayopitiwa na njia za umeme kwakuwa haina hela na inataka kuleta maendeleo ya haraka. Prof Muhongo alikwenda mbali na kupiga hesabu za pesa ambazo Serikali imeokoa kutokana na fidia na kwasababu hiyo ikapunguza dramatically gharama za kuunganishiwa umeme toka 350,000 hadi 27,000 Tshs. Ni jambo la kujivunia sana. In Kenya first of all you need to ask yourself who is taking the lead in power business? the answer is that ni mother wa Mkuu, huyu mama hatari sana she has a big stake in power supply in Kenya, sasa msiwe mnapeleka hiyo bill ili umeme wote wa Kenya uwe unasambazwa na huyu mama kisha mtegemee bei iwe poa au umeme ufike vijijini kote la haitatokea. Angalia tu, nchini Kenya dry-port ilitakiwa ijengwe kati ya Mombasa na Nairobi lakini imepelekwa Naivasha kwenye mashamba ya Mzee. Sasa corruption na maamuzi yenye maslahi makubwa kwa wafanyabiashara watawala yatawamaliza Kenya. Nchi yenu inauchumu mzuri sana lakini ufisadi na rushwa ya hali ya juu inawamaliza kwakuwa maamuzi mengi si kwa maslahi ya Wakenys but political and business elites.
 
Usambazaji wa umeme Kenya hadi Desemba 2017 ilikuwa ni 67.5%, Tz, 32.8%! Mafunzo tunaeza tukawapa ya bure. Muache kelele nyingi.
 
mwanalumango said:
Wakenya wanatakiwa waelewe kuwa sula la UMEME ni sula na National Security. Huwezi hand-over kazi hiyo yote to the private company. Ukisoma vile hapo juu wanasema private companies zinasambaza umeme kwa households and small commercial establishments, nothing about rural areas. Given the nature of capitalism, these companies will never supply electricity to the villages where there is little or no profit margins. Hawajaeleza vya kutosha source of electricity and how much is going to cost. Sisi Tanzania tumepigwa sana na private electrical companies with capacity charges na makampuni haya yameshindwa kufikia lengo. As I have highlighted that the power issue is an issue of National Security, it is of significance for a government to take the lead. Sisemi kwakuwa ni Mtanzania bali ukiangalia kwa sasa jinsi Serikali ya Tanzania inavyosambaza umeme vijijini kote kwa speed ya hali ya juu ni jambo la kuigwa. Serikali ya TZ iliwashawishi Watanzia wasidai fidia ya maeneo yao yatakayopitiwa na njia za umeme kwakuwa haina hela na inataka kuleta maendeleo ya haraka. Prof Muhongo alikwenda mbali na kupiga hesabu za pesa ambazo Serikali imeokoa kutokana na fidia na kwasababu hiyo ikapunguza dramatically gharama za kuunganishiwa umeme toka 350,000 hadi 27,000 Tshs. Ni jambo la kujivunia sana. In Kenya first of all you need to ask yourself who is taking the lead in power business? the answer is that ni mother wa Mkuu, huyu mama hatari sana she has a big stake in power supply in Kenya, sasa msiwe mnapeleka hiyo bill ili umeme wote wa Kenya uwe unasambazwa na huyu mama kisha mtegemee bei iwe poa au umeme ufike vijijini kote la haitatokea. Angalia tu, nchini Kenya dry-port ilitakiwa ijengwe kati ya Mombasa na Nairobi lakini imepelekwa Naivasha kwenye mashamba ya Mzee. Sasa corruption na maamuzi yenye maslahi makubwa kwa wafanyabiashara watawala yatawamaliza Kenya. Nchi yenu inauchumu mzuri sana lakini ufisadi na rushwa ya hali ya juu inawamaliza kwakuwa maamuzi mengi si kwa maslahi ya Wakenys but political and business elites.
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Mkuu inabidi wakulipe kwa hii knowledge uliyo wapa. Hivi kuna private company yakuweza kufunga umeme vijijini kwa Kshs 13,500/= kama tunavyo fanya TZ zaidi ya serikali? Jamaa anatolea mfano wa mobile companies bila kujua tunanyonywa. Kuna nchi kupiga simu usiku ni bure. Nime mwambia afanye case study Ethiopia ju ya telecomunication
 
Introducing a new player in Electricity Trasmission is a good idea, but its too late for any meaningful competition that can drive prices down. When a Company Like KPLC fails its customers by providing un reliable power at high prices, the solutiob is not to introduce a competitor, the solution is to Jail the corrupt cartels and recover lost money simple
 
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