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Kenya
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Date of submissionPhaseDesignCountriesObjectiveSectorsSulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is the world’s most potent greenhouse gas and is used as an insulating medium in electrical equipment like circuit breakers and switchgears installed in transmission and distribution grids. SF6 is currently the main insulation gas deployed in switchgears in Kenya. The country currently operates a transmission network of about 9,011 km circuit length. Up to 2032, 38 new substations and 5,745 km of circuit length are planned to be established in the high-voltage segment alone.
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The technical assistance for direct use of geothermal energy in low to medium temperature geothermal systems was requested by six African countries in the Eastern Africa region. The countries lie within the Great East African Rift Valley (both at the eastern and western branches), a region that possesses a remarkable geothermal energy resource potential that can be used for power generation and direct use application.
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The Kenyan economy is dependent on the performance of the Agricultural sector which directly contributes about 25% of the country’s GDP and about 27% indirectly through linkages to agro-based industries and the service sector.
Based on Kenya’s National Adaptation Plan (NAP) 2015 -2030, out of 47 counties, 23 are vulnerable to drought, 22 counties to landslides, and 35 counties to flooding. Simulation of future climate change scenarios based on various models indicate a mean annual temperature increase of 1.5 to 3.0°C by 2050.
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Date of submissionPhaseCompletedCountriesObjectiveSectorsCross-sectoral enablerThis Technology Transfer Advances Kenya's
- Nationally Determined Contribution and its aim to abate GHG emissions by 30% by 2030 relative to the BAU scenario. The Kenya NDC supports the implementation of the National climate change Action Plan (2018 – 2022) which includes the promotion of the following activities of relevance to this technical assistance;
- Make progress towards achieving a tree cover of at least 10% of the land area of Kenya.
- Nationally Determined Contribution and its aim to abate GHG emissions by 30% by 2030 relative to the BAU scenario. The Kenya NDC supports the implementation of the National climate change Action Plan (2018 – 2022) which includes the promotion of the following activities of relevance to this technical assistance;
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Date of submissionPhaseDesignCountriesObjectiveCross-sectoral enablerThis Technology Transfer Advances Kenya's
- Nationally Determined Contribution to expand in clean energy options such as geothermal, and to abate its GHG emissions by 30% by 2030 relative to the BAU scenario of 143 MtCO2eq and in line with its sustainable development agenda.
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Kenya is in a very interesting development phase, with its ambitions outlined in the vision 2030. Energy is one of the key enablers of the Vision 2030 and energy security remains a matter of national priority. The Kenya Vision 2030 envisions a middle-income economy offering decent jobs and high quality of life to its citizenry. This portends increased energy demand and consumption due to rapidly expanding, wholly energy driven manufacturing, agriculture, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and transport sectors.
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Date of submissionPhaseCompletedCountriesObjectiveSectorsCross-sectoral enablerThis Technology Transfer Advances Kenya's
- Nationally Determined Contribution to reduce its GHG emissions by 30% by 2030 relative to the Business-As-Usual scenario and in line with its sustainable development agenda, and to mainstream climate change adaptation into the water sector.
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