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First private power station proposed

    NAIROBI

    Plans are underway for the construction of a 74 megawatt diesel generation plant in Mombasa at the cost of $86 million, the ‘Daily Nation’ newspaper reported on Tuesday. The plant, to be known as Kipevu II power project, will sell electricity to the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) under a 20-year power purchase contract, it said. The International Finance Corporation (IFC) had recently signed an agreement to invest up to $41 million in the project, it added. Kenya has been facing an acute power shortage due to prolonged drought affecting hydro-electric generation, and power rationing has been in place since last September. The ‘Kenya Times’ newspaper on Thursday quoted Energy Minister Francis Masakhalia as saying that the government was set to import more electricity from Uganda, bringing the percentage of total domestic supply met by Uganda up to 30 percent.

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