Consumer body, FKE censure regulator’s new petrol pricing
This week, the Energy Regulatory Commission increased retail prices for super petrol and kerosene against the expectations of many. This renewed calls for a re-evaluation of the pricing formula while some players called for the scrapping of the price controls. The price of crude oil has in the recent past been on a decline, going down to $121 a barrel More...
Consumer body, FKE censure regulator’s new petrol pricing
This week, the Energy Regulatory Commission increased retail prices for super petrol and kerosene against the expectations of many. Jackline Mugo (left), FKE CEO with National Chairman Erustus Mwongera (centre) More...
Kenya’s KenGen eyes $686 mln gas-fired power plant
An official with Kenya Power and Lighting Company poses inside a sub-station in Nairobi October 8, 2008. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan electricity generating company KenGen plans to raise More...
Tanesco to cover its wires to protect lives
Tanesco Managing Director, Mr William Mhando Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) plans to insulate its power cables that carry between 200 and 420 volts to protect people and the environment, it has been More...
Uganda Government cannot cap fuel prices – budget framework
The government has no plan to cap fuel prices, according to the 2012/13 Budget Framework. “Any attempt to intervene by capping fuel prices can lead to shortages, and/or the development of a black market,” More...
Tanzania’s power producers go for thermal sources
Tanzania`s energy sources are set to be further diversified after announcement by a firm currently engaged in exploration of plans to produce 100 megawatts of geothermal power by 2014. Graeme Robertson whose Geothermal More...
Tanzania: Muhongo sets power access targets
New Energy and Minerals Minister, Professor Sospeter Muhongo At least 30 per cent of the country’s over 44 million people should access reliable and affordable power supply by 2015, new Energy and Minerals Minister, More...
Huge finds make East Africa the next big gas source
Blocks 1, 3 and 4 offshore Tanzania cover a 20,853km2 area of the Mafia Deep Offshore Basin and northern portion of the Ruvuma Basin, located in water depths ranging from approximately 100m to greater than 3,000m. LONDON More...
Kenya near to sealing more offshore oil search deals
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya is close to sealing a deepwater exploration contract with France’s Total and has offered three other oil majors new offshore blocks, the country’s petroleum commissioner More...
BG and Ophir Energy find more gas in Tanzania
LONDON May 16 (Reuters) – British gas firm BG Group and explorer Ophir Energy said they had found more gas off the coast of Tanzania, raising hopes that the East African country will become a major new gas More...
