Creating Energy Efficiency Awareness – My Experience
By Monica Ngage. I have just started working at an energy consultancy firm. One of our missions is to create energy efficiency awareness in order to empower people to be more conscious about how they use energy and to make wise decisions. There’s a chart on the wall...
What the Energy Act 2019 means for the energy efficiency space in Kenya
By Chris Mbori President Uhuru Kenyatta recently (March 12, 2019) signed the Energy Bill 2017 ushering a new era in the energy space in Kenya. Being in the energy efficiency market, I have looked through the new Energy Act 2019 and found three interesting highlights...
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ENERGY AND POWER
BY OMBAJO VINCENT GEDION The confusion surrounding these two words cannot be gainsaid. In fact, the confusion also reigns within professional circles of engineers, scientists and technicians. And when the two words are in the vicinity of each other, for instance in a...
Simple Factors Affecting Solar Performance worth Knowing
Simple Factors Affecting Solar Performance worth Knowing Over the past five years, solar energy use has grown in East Africa and especially Kenya. Boosted by a government regulation on solar energy and high cost of power, many Kenyans and commercial entities have...
Intelligent Energy Management for homes
Energy as we know it is the ability to work and is available in many different forms. It is an influential and most discussed topic of our times since it affects our daily activities. Electricity is one of the many energy forms and since its discovery more than 130...
How much should an energy audit cost?
There are a lot of concerns on what is the appropriate fee for the various Energy Efficiency services. Of great interest are the energy audits. I do not know what happens in other countries but in Kenya we still do not have a standard procedure to price our energy...
UNDERSTANDING BIOENERGY POTENTIAL
By Albert Odiyo If you spent majority of your formative stages of life at the rural village like me then you must appreciate the value of bioenergy in meeting daily energy demands there like I do. This was, and still remains to a large extent, the primary source of...
3 Good Websites for Energy Engineers
I recently went for an oral licensing interview to become a Licensed Energy Auditor with our local regulator ERC (Energy Regulatory Commission). I still have not received my results yet but anytime from now I should know my fate. The interview was a 3 stage step where...
Kenya’s Nuclear Ambition
Understanding the nuclear energy In 2011, the ministry of energy (MoE) announced plans for Kenya getting working nuclear power plant(s) within the next 15 years to provide power to actualize the country vision of being a middle level economy by year 2030. Since the...
KENYA GOING NUCLEAR
NUCLEAR ENERGY IN KENYA The state has embraced Nuclear Science study and seemingly solidifying grounds on establishing a Nuclear Power Plant. Due to increased concerns on nuclear waste disposal and dilemma associated therewith, some countries like US are seeking for...
5 Reasons Why you should have the ISO 50001 Energy Management System
Tips you should learn now Recently I attended an ISO 50001 Energy Management System Training offered by Bureau Veritas. ISO 50001 is an International Organization for Standardization Certification standard that enables organizations improve their energy performance....
A Review of Voltage Optimization
‘Fact or Fiction’ Voltage optimization seems to be the current buzz word in Kenya among Energy Engineers. Just the other day, at a meeting with colleagues on how to better save energy for a client who has over 100 facilities that need to be audited, the word voltage...