BY PETER ACHIENG “The future of humanity and of our planet lies in our hands. It lies also in the hands of today’s younger generation who will pass the torch to future generations. “ (United Nations, General Assembly, 2015b, para. 53) Today, there are 1.9 billion young people aged 18 to 29 years,…
BY LIZ NYUKURI The world is in a race to combat climate change impacts with adoption of measures to drastically reduce emissions now more urgent than ever. Emissions anywhere affects people everywhere regardless of borders and boundaries. Africa contributes the least to global warming yet is…
BY ELEEN KORIR In the recent past, we put out and advertisement on our social media pages for an energy engineer intern to join our very energized team. In less than one week, we had an overwhelming close to 200 applications coming in from across various engineering fields within and beyond the…
BY LINDA MANYALA What is an ESCO- Energy Service Company? A company ‘engaged in the business of undertaking energy audits and the development, design, financing, and building of energy conservation projects and whose compensation is directly linked to actual energy savings. Eenovators Ltd is an…
BY RUTH CAROL ATIENO The Youth in Energy Empowerment Program (YEEP) is an Youth Innovation internship program run under Eenovators Limited with the aim to equip graduates with a background in engineering, and aged between 21-30 years with energy skills and experience required to position them for…
BY CAROLYNE GATHURU As part of the need to provide learning and development opportunities to the youth in the engineering space, Eenovators Ltd put out an ad for an Energy Internship opportunity to join the Eenovators Technical Team. The call for an intern was placed on the Eenovators’ social…
Anonymous Valentine Date BY MONICA NGAGE Its valentines 2021 and Eenovators family is not left behind. A week to valentine’s day , our meeting chairperson led us in an activity which would lead us to expressing love and appreciating each other. You can bear me witness this came in handy as most of…
BY LINDA A. MANYALA Fun fact: Did you know that the sun supplies more energy to earth in one hour than humanity uses in an entire year? About 1,366 watts of direct solar radiation per square meter is received by the earth while 173,000 terawatts of solar energy continuously impacting the earth’s…
BY EMILY GITONGA The year is still young and people have made different resolutions. Have you made resolutions for energy savings in 2021? Beginning a new year comes with new mindset, new goals, and fulfilling things we never accomplished in the past year. Eating healthy, losing weight, saving and…
BY RUTH CAROL ATIENO We all have specific morning routines that we follow every morning when we get out of bed. But are you conserving energy in the process? In today's blog I will give you very simple tips that you can add to your morning routine to make it energy efficient. Take Shorter Showers…
A Consumer’s Perspective On What Actually Convinces Him To Buy Energy Efficient Appliances For His Home. By Eugene Omondi As someone who has tried to talk about energy efficiency in front of an audience [one that was forced to sit and listen], I must admit that it is difficult not to start…
By Liz Nekesa I sat through the first E-mobility conference in East Africa held in February where the goal of 500,000 EV’s by 2030 was set. The question ‘Is the region ready to bring forth this shift” lingered in my mind. The global increase in electric vehicles presents an exciting opportunity…
By Eleen Korir In the recent past here in Kenya, there has been articles indicating complaints by the electricity distributor, Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC), concerning the increased migration from the grid by its clients to solar energy, read more, there’s a clear indication that most…
By Carolyne Gathuru Over the past one year and in the spirit of celebrating Energy as an everyday subject rather than as a subject of focus in October during the World Energy Day Celebrations, a series of Energy Professional Round Tables were held with speakers hailing from all over the globe.…
By Eugene Omondi A recently developed habit of reading books and articles in psychology has put me in a frame of mind where I question a lot of things that we do. But having majored in environmental sciences, it seemed almost inevitable that I would wonder why as a generation we haven’t yet…
By Martin Ochieng The information from this article draws from data collected by a real-time energy monitoring system on a client’s premises. The audit team was able to identify a couple of issues based on the operation of a 37kW load-unload compressor with an inbuilt dryer. Data collection and…
By Carolyne Gathuru The world continues to be taken by storm by the #JerusalemaChallenge, that has served to transcend borders and boundaries globally, with uploads from people of all walks of life taking on the new craze. Eenovators was not left out of it and in the spirit of celebrating Customer…
By Eleen Korir According to ISO, Energy consumption and use across the globe continues to increase and has more than doubled in the last 40 years. This energy consumption is projected to increase a further 30% by 2040. While this is happening, there is an increase in greenhouse gas emissions…
By Linet Njeri I first heard of the term green recovery during one of the World Energy Day Round tables on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Optimization. It was mentioned by one of the speakers, Lisa Reynolds, the CEO of Green Buildings and Design Group based in South Africa. She described…
By Monica Ngage With the COVID-19 causing a sudden change of events, there is much adjustments that is needed. Trying to cope with and manage these changes often come with stress. We have seen people losing their jobs, others dealing with pay cuts and the few lucky ones working from homes. These…
By Karen Thuranira What is a Solar Water Heater? A solar water heater is a device that captures sunlight to heat water. Water heating accounts for a substantial portion of energy use in residential, commercial and institutional premises. Solar water heating systems which use the sun’s energy to…
By Liz Nekesa Fan system refers to all components attached to a fan, for example an industrial fan system may include, fume hoods, ductwork, control dampers, filters, motors, belts drive and other electrical connections. Fan system performance optimization is mostly overlooked yet it can offer…
By Ruth Carol You must be wondering how the two terms, online shopping and the environment, ended up in one sentence. Well, this is because almost all human behaviors have an effect on the environment. With the current COVID-19 pandemic situation in the world and people minimizing movements,…
By Chris Mbori Selling Energy Saving Projects for implementation can be an uphill task for many energy managers, energy engineers or project developers. In most energy efficiency projects, the selling point is normally the energy savings. But is energy savings alone enough to win project approval?…
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