By the way, electricity sio maji. The reason why we import it from Uganda is not because we don't have enough of it in Kenya. I can't explain this without jargon since it loses some nuances but I'll try to do so.

We import from to reduce blackouts in Western Kenya and stabilize the grid in that region. We need to do so because generating stations on the Kenyan side are very far from Western Kenya. This leads to high maintenance costs which are transferred to you in your bills.

Instability in Western affects the stability of the Kenyan grid too and to fix without importing requires heavy investment in protection, safety power electronics etc, costs which will also be transferred to you through your bill. All this will lead to retraining expenses too.

Add the usual corruption into the mix and, if your taxes weren't subsidizing your electricity costs, especially for people in rural areas, you'd be paying more than 50kes per unit and I'm being conservative hapo.

By the way, Lake Turkana Wind Power project was partly an effort to try and resolve this. The answer as to if it succeeded is complicated. From a political perspective, it probably did From a technical perspective, we're gonna need a conversation about intermittent renewables.

Plus I don't have data on the plant so this would be one of those long shot assumptions based on theory. I hear the Garissa Solar PV plant is doing a lot better. Though it's being managed by a parastatal who have a track record and a half. They are THE engineers.