Statista (2022) estimates that only 90,000 Kenyans use Biogas against a population of 53 million. Kenyans.co.ke spoke to energy expert Jacob Nyambu on why Kenyans were not embracing biogas production.

Lucy Nyanga Joseph is one of the only women solar technicians in Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp, which together with the nearby Kalobeyei settlement hosts 249,000 refugees from 24 nationalities. Like Lucy, some of these refugees have fled conflict, insecurity, disasters, or threats of persecution; others were born in the camp.

Up until 2019, nurses in three health facilities located in the semi-arid south-eastern Kenya region of Makueni County struggled to bring critical health services closer to a hard-to-reach population scattered across three remote, far-flung villages. In February 2019, a groundbreaking donation of a solar-powered freezer to the Kamboo health centre.

Started in 2020, French-Kenyan Stima Boda emerged from a desire to create a more equitable society and sustainable planet through e-mobility, because transport impacts greatly on climate change.

Three organisations have commissioned an integrated solar water desalination project for refugees in Kalobeyei camp, Turkana West subcounty. The host community and refugees will both benefit from the solar water desalination project for drinking, irrigation, fish farming and saline water farming.

Although Kenya generates a large chunk of its electricity from renewable sources such as hydropower and geothermal, it runs dozens of diesel-powered generation units following years of drought. The new solar mini-grids are part of a $150 million programme funded by the World Bank.