Learning from Power Sector Reform: The Case of Kenya

Godinho, Catrina; Eberhard, Anton

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-8819

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“…Private sector participation is responsible for a relatively small portion of Kenya's renewable energy generation. Instead, private sector investment has primarily contributed to the development of hydrocarbon based generationPueyo (2018) Godinho and Eberhard (2019). Not only has liberalization failed to spur renewable energy growth, but PPAs signed between the state and IPPs have been the target of credible allegations of corruption and overpricing.…”

Section: State-led Renewable Energy Growthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Under pressure from funders, KPLC agreed to honor its debts to KenGen; it was now clear that it could no longer rely on the governance arrangement of the developmental regime. The government's interests remained concentrated in the expansion of generation, for which KPLC was no longer the established agent (Godinho and Eberhard, 2019).…”

Section: Expansion Of Electricity Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In contrast to the developmental regime of Ghana, socially-driven expansion of electricity access was not a priority at the governance arrangements level of the Kenyan power sector until the legalization of multi-party democracy in 1992 (Godinho and Eberhard, 2019). This placed pressure on the incumbent KANU government to expand service delivery, and thus a steady if slow expansion of electricity access began to take place in the 1990s.…”

Section: Expansion Of Electricity Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to an independent analysis of the Kenyan power sector commissioned by the World Bank, recent gains in electricity generation and access have far more to do with state intervention in the sector than increases in private sector participation. In particular, the election of Uhuru Kenyatta and the return to power of the KANU appears to have resulted in something of a return to the sector's pre-reform developmental model, characterized by high levels of state spending in generation, transmission, and distribution, and a restoration of the KPLC's role as the implementing agent of state policy (Godinho and Eberhard, 2019). Figure 8 below charts the progression of electricity access during the reform period, with a notable increase in the rate of increase following the election of Kenyatta in 2013.…”

Section: Expansion Of Electricity Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Unsustainable Development: The Impact of Power Sector Reform on Policy Regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa

Peterson

2022

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Sub-Saharan Africa lags the rest of the world in access to electricity, and progress towards developing renewable energy resources has been underwhelming relative to potential and expectations. Existing explanations for this failure fall into two camps. The first focuses on technical solutions to policy frameworks designed to attract private capital investment to power sectors. Such explanations make an unjustified ex ante assumption that private investment is either necessary or sufficient to solve the region's energy problems, and the policy deficiencies they identify are symptomatic of political economic conditions this literature pays little attention to. The second camp focuses on a narrow definition of institutional quality that lacks theoretical depth. This work responds to this gap in the literature by focusing on how variation in the organization of policy regimes, or the sets of institutions responsible for power sector governance, contributes to electricity access and renewable energy development. Through a longitudinal comparative case study of Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa, this work finds that coherent policy regimes (where institutional interests and incentives are aligned, and policy instruments produce synergistic benefits) with limited distributions of implementation responsibilities are most effective at delivering electricity access and renewable energy development to their publics. The conclusions of the case studies are tested through a set of panel regressions on a broad sample of Sub-Saharan African countries, combining new and existing data on regulatory interventions. The panel regression results support the conclusions of the case studies.

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Section: State-led Renewable Energy Growthmentioning

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Section: Expansion Of Electricity Accessmentioning

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Section: Expansion Of Electricity Accessmentioning

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Section: Expansion Of Electricity Accessmentioning

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Unsustainable Development: The Impact of Power Sector Reform on Policy Regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa

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2022

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“…According to (Godinho & Eberhard, 2019), Egypt has nearly attained universal access in 2007 and got all hooked on the national grid. Egypt's government set up the Rural Electrification Authority (REA) in 1971 to ensure ubiquitous excess to grid electricity (Godinho & Eberhard, 2019). Once the government's rural electrification program was achieved, the government disbanded the REA.…”

Section: Electricity Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dynamic Role of Renewable Eenrgy to Strengthen Energy Security and Energy Poverty Reduction: Mediating Role of Low Carbon Finance

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Ha²,

Thuan³

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This paper provides an empirical analysis of deploying renewables in Africa's five most populous countries for 2001-2019. It analyzed these factors to see how they impact deploying renewables by employing panel data using the pooled ordinary least squared(OLS) at frim level analysis to increase energy security and to reduce energy poverty. After the analysis, we proved that access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking needs the study countries to deploy renewables as most Africans cook with polluting fuels having detrimental health implications. The analyses further revealed that these countries generate a chunk of their electricity from fossil fuel sources, making it imperative to jettison fossil fuels and embrace renewables cheaper and environmentally friendly. The analysis also showed that the Quality of regulation in a country is vitally important to scaling up renewables in the study countries since the right policy tools underpin the transition. Furthermore, the lack of Electrification is important to developing renewal energy sources in the study countries. Sub-Saharan Africa has about nearly 600 million people not having access to electricity. Thus deploying renewables will bridge the access gap. Cleaner energies will be the panacea to the study countries’ energy insecurity situation and bridge the access gap. The study countries have the technical and theoretical potential for all the renewable energies needed to ensure sustainable consumption. What is needed is to institute cornerstone financial policy de-risking instruments to crowd in private capital since the renewables sector is perceived as a high-risk area.

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