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By Ombajo G Vincent From the depths of every passing generation, children are the perfect illumination of our souls. They are not only the most treasured beings in the hearts of men but also the hands by which we get hold of heaven. Suffice to say then that anything that risks the life of children…
Hydrogen forms a perfect alternative source of energy for more reasons than one. Apart from being the most plentiful gas in the atmosphere, hydrogen does not emit harmful gases such as CO2. Due to this, any breakthrough in commercial use of hydrogen would be great news to the whole world. Looking…
I am a public health professional working in an energy consultancy firm! Yes…. But I still have the basics of occupational health and safety which was foundational in my training. This piece is a sharing about health and safety for energy auditors…an area of specialty for Eenovators Limited. The…
By Ombajo V Gedion Electricity consumers are often complaining about high power bills, everyone does not seem to be at ease paying high power bills. In some cases, electricity is not viewed as a commodity but a right. And one thing about a right is that it’s supposed to be free. But that is not…
Lighting up Tomorrow’s Leaders There has been a significant drive in the past five years to ensure electricity is available in all the public primary schools in the country, with the target number published by the Rural Electrification Authority (REA) as 22,000. This ambitious project has at its…
By Warren Ondanje. It is highly likely that your weekly errands involve visiting a store housed a mall. In Nairobi especially, standalone shopping stores are becoming fewer as investors are betting on adding to the already-present 30 malls. From the convenience of having many shops in a single…
The Unseen Cost of Installation Mistakes So, you have successfully selected a compressor and it has been delivered to your site. Now comes the easy part, connecting it to your application. Right? Not necessarily… How your compressor is installed has a direct bearing on whether it will properly…
By Ombajo Vincent Gedion. For quite some time now, high energy consumers have been doing energy audits through licensed energy auditors. A considerable amount of money is spent on this important exercise by these energy consumers. But do these energy consumers get to achieve the key aims for…
The Disconnect on System Design By Carolyne Gathuru. The energy sector in Kenya is quite robust with the gazettement of several regulations towards governing energy production, use, management, and conservation in the country. It has been said that Kenya is the country to watch with regards to…
By Chris Mbori. The energy management space like any other industry keeps evolving. All players and stakeholders alike need to keep abreast of emerging aspects and adapt to change to not only take advantage of the opportunities but also to plug into the different energy initiatives for impact. In…
By Eleen Korir A lot has been written on climate change and actions to combat Global warming. On the other hand, minimal actions have been done or implemented across the globe towards creating sustainable change. In fact in my opinion, there is increased emission of harmful gases as well…
By Kennedy Khusi. The Decision Have you ever wondered where to start from with regards to putting into practice your 5 years of hard work at the University? That was me. Having graduated from the University of Nairobi with a B.Sc. degree in Mechanical and Manufacturing engineering, I was at a…
Molecules of life By Karen Thuranira Why is water conservation critical? Most of us have been raised in a typical African home probably in the rural areas. This is where we first learnt ‘The Value of Water.’ If you have walked several miles everyday to draw water from a river or a community well…
By Ombajo Vincent Gedion Renewable energy has grown and still continues to grow in Kenya. Many professionals have taken up solar energy as full time practice. With this growth of solar energy and a growing market, the government stepped in to regulate the sector. The solar energy sector needed to…
Based Measurement & Verification By Paul Muhia So, you have done your first energy audit, an impressive energy audit report has been shared with you highlighting the sweet money savings that you will be making, with some projects promising short payback period of less than a year… Do you take it…
By Ombajo Vincent Gedion Is Solar Thermal Kenya's next ready frontier for Energy Efficiency? For something to grow and be acceptable in large scale, a lot of work and time go into it. In the world of clean energy, a combination of factors that range from ideology, opportunities, needs and…
David Mbori When people talk about energy savings people tend to rush to think about big energy consumers like factories and other big plants. We rarely give thought to what I may call small timers like domestic usage and office usage. If we can embrace energy conservation measures in our offices…
High Electricity Bills – System Error or ……………………..? The cost of electricity in Kenya has over the past year been rising, albeit in an incremental manner that may have gone unnoticed. Such high cost is now becoming apparent, threatening to worsen the cost of living. So far, power cost has over the…
Pauline Mweu Energy auditing has been the big thing in the energy sector since the law was passed in 2012. Although I may not be amongst the best writers known, here I am and this is my story.. Many of my colleagues will agree to this; it is usually an engineers’ inside joke – that [...]
By Ruth Carol Atieno Energy efficiency is one of the major campaigns going on in the world today and several world organizations, not only in the energy sector, but across different industries, have taken this seriously. Reducing the amount of energy required for production or to successfully…
By Carolyne Gathuru Customer experience excellence is generally considered the preserve of those in the service industry and thought to be constricted to those that have high interaction with customers in spaces of service delivery. What is not known, and needs to be amplified on loud speaker, is…
By Gacheri Kimathi I am writing this on my last day just after having my lunch. Having happy thoughts and feeling grateful to be here at Eenovators Limited. Going through the interview with my hands dripping wet under the table, eating all that good cake, sweet watermelons, conducting site visits,…
By Amos Kiprop Energy monitoring and targeting (M&T) This is an energy efficiency technique based on the standard management axiom stating that “you cannot manage what you cannot measure”. M&T techniques provide energy managers with feedback on operating practices, results of energy management…
Machine Learning and Big Data Career Opportunities in the Evolving Energy Space The importance of cutting past the excitement and incorporating actual use cases of big data, the internet of things, and machine learning in the energy sector is increasingly becoming apparent as more and more…
