What should Africa be doing to exploit its abundant natural resources for energy?
Investment opportunities are getting less and less so people are looking at new ways and new areas. People are also becoming more and more conscious about our environment and global warming; cost of traditional energy production has quadrupled in recent years; wind energy has come a long way going from the traditional huge ineffective windmills of the 1980’s to high energy efficient ones of today; wind is totally complimentary to hydro as in wet years generally have low winds and high in dry allowing water reservoirs to recover, this is especially the case in Kenya where hydro being the main source but also at almost total capacity. Africa needs to focus on good private investor initiatives that are good for the country and not just a few individuals. These initiatives will in turn have huge impacts on areas such as Turkana (Marsabit) that would never otherwise get much attention.
