Government to spend Sh65b in electrifying SGR by 2021

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SGR moves over 337,000 passengers since June launch

By Fredrick Obura
Published: Nov 2nd 2017 at 11:51, Updated: Nov 2nd 2017 at 17:02

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A Standard Gauge Railway train. [File photo]

SUMMARY

Some authorities project Kenya’s maximum power demand to grow 72 per cent to 2,259 megawatts by 2020 from the current 1,620 megawatts, to which demand the Standard Gauge Railway will contribute greatly.On the other hand, the Government sees the demand as jumping up threefold to 4,755 megawatts in the three years.

NAIROBI, KENYA: Kenya is planning to upgrade its diesel-powered Standard Gauge Railway service (SGR) to electric in the next three to four years, Cabinet Secretary James Macharia told reporters on Wednesday.

The CS said the new project will cost about Sh65 billion and explained that the government opted to start with diesel powered train due uncertainty in electrical power supply.

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“We were not sure of electric power supply, that is why we started with diesel but provided a provision to upgrade it later to electric by 2021,” he said during the launch of inter-county train services between Mombasa and Nairobi.

Kenya Railways on Wednesday introduced a second trip on the Madaraka Express Passenger Service that departed Mombasa Termini at 3.30 pm.

CS Macharia said that the new service is part of measures to increase access and lower the cost of transport across the country.

“Since its launch five months ago, the Madaraka Express has endeavored to lower the cost of transport and make it more affordable for Kenyans to travel for both business and leisure. So far, the service has moved over 337,000 passengers between the port city of Mombasa and Nairobi, with the number growing daily,’’ he said.

Some authorities project Kenya’s maximum power demand to grow 72 per cent to 2,259 megawatts by 2020 from the current 1,620 megawatts, to which demand the Standard Gauge Railway will contribute greatly.

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On the other hand, the Government sees the demand tripling to 4,755 megawatts in the three years.

SGR moves over 337,000 passengers since June launch

MY TAKE
That's about $1.2 bln for electrification [emoji115] [emoji23]
 
tuusan said:
Geza bana[emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]
yani hawa jamaa kila kitu kwao gharama kubwaaa ,Jubilee sio watu wa mchezo mchezo

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MSAGA SUMU said:
inabidi wabadilishe chama uchaguzi ujao,I mean huo wa miezi miwili ijayo
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tuusan said:
Wakati iyo ni bei ya kujenga usawa wa Dar moro electrified sgr kabisa...

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Kwanza mjenge ile white elephant yenu kisha mlete comparisons hapa, ila kwa sasa mkae kimya.
 
Ninaweza nikasema kwa uhakika wa 95% kwamba haya ni maneno ya Macharia kutaka kuwaridhisha wakenya baada ya kuona kwamba wakenya wamekasirishwa kwa kitendo cha kujenga reli ya diesel kwa pesa nyingi, hii pia inazidi kuthibitisha mipango mibovu ya serikali ya Kenya hasa katika kuanzisha miradi mbalimbali
1)Utasemaje kwamba serikali haikuwa na uhakika juu ya upatikanaji wa umeme, je serikali haina miipango ya muda mrefu ya kujua nini kitatokea miaka kumi ijayo?, imekuaje hata kabla reli haijakamilika kujengwa hadi Malaba, tayari serikali imeshajua uhakika wa kupatikana umeme, kwanini wasilijue hili miaka mitatu iliyopita?
2)Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda na Burundi, ambao hadi sasa wanazalisha umeme mdogo sana, kwanini wao tayari wamechagua kujenga reli za umeme, Kenya ilishindwaje kuliona hilo mapema kama sio ubabaishaji, rushwa au uwezo mdogo wa kuona mbali?
3)Reli ya Kenya itakuwa chini ya wachina wakiisimamia ili warudishe pesa yao, nani atatoa hiyo pesa ndani ya hiyo miaka mitatu toka sasa?
4)Kama serikali ya Kenya inayo hiyo pesa, kwanini wasizitumie kujenga section japo moja ya SGR badala yake wanataka kuweka umeme ambao sio lazima sana kwa sasa?
5)Locomotives zote za diesel zilizonunuliwa zitafanya kazi gani, au Kenya itakuwa na locomotives mara mbili zaidi ya wanazohitaji?, haya mambo inabidi muwaulize hao viongozi wenu, watazidi kuwaingiza katika madeni kutokana na mipango yao mibovu, huyo Maina angekuwa chini ya Magufuli tayari angekuwa kijijini analima matikiti
 
kenya is the only country in east africa with a functioning sgr ,electric tutafika tukipata maarifa
electric railway becomes fancy words when you do not have the technical capacity to run it.
hadi kwa sasa ethiopia sgr haijaanza kufanya kazi ,

Kenya diesel about 350 000 passengers transported since June 2017
Ethiopia electric barely 10 000 passengers since October 2016

whose smarter now???

jengeni yenyu electric kwanza ndo mje muongee mbaya
 
Bado vumbi la kuibiwa na mchina akishirikiana na viongozi wenu corrupt halijafutika machoni mwako, bado hujaamini kwamba viongozi wenu wanawaibia unaendelea kuwatetea?, kama hadi sasa bila kujumlisha gharama ya kuweka umeme gharama yake ni mara mbili zaidi ya inayojengwa Tanzania, je wakiongeza 20% kwa ajili ya electrification plus amount of money for electrical locomotives, it will go up to three times as much as, is it wise to continue pumping in money?
 
hata ningemshauri macharia pamoja na serikali wawachane na hiyo mambo ya electrification...lets just continue with diesel hadi tulipe deni..mambo ya kuongeza deni juu ya deni na ilhali SGR hii hii ya diesel inafanya kazi nzuri so far...its doing a fantastic job...no need of wasting more resources kisa tu stima...wakitamani stima sana basi wajaribu kwa SGR phase 2 ama Nairobi light rail...
 
Idiot Na ya Ethiopia je? Functioning at half the price of ur stone age SGR!
 
Geza Ulole said:
Idiot Na ya Ethiopia je? Functioning at half the price of ur stone age SGR!
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tulia ndugu msumari uchome vzr...SGR ya mizigo inakuwa launched January 2018...you are welcome to use our SGR to import goods since it will be cheaper than carrying goods from Dar with trucks...
 
Jay456watt said:
tulia ndugu msumari uchome vzr...SGR ya mizigo inakuwa launched January 2018...
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To serve Nairobi tu ama? It won't make a sense having nusu mkeka shipping cargo to Nairobi then using trucks to Kampala! Who pays the cost of unloading n loading at Mombasa n Nairobi?
 
Geza Ulole said:
To serve Nairobi tu ama? It won't make a sense having nusu mkeka shipping cargo to Nairobi then using trucks to Kampala!
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it will be half cheaper.from 500,000 KSH to 250,000 KSH..plus a Ugandan trader wont have to go to Mombasa to take his goods with a truck...he will just come to Nairobi...there is an Inland Container Depot (ICD) at Nairobi....large enough to handle millions of cargo per annum...
 
How about storage charges at inland container depot?
 
Geza Ulole said:
To serve Nairobi tu ama? It won't make a sense having nusu mkeka shipping cargo to Nairobi then using trucks to Kampala! Who pays the cost of unloading n loading at Mombasa n Nairobi?
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Ya bongolala iko wapi?
 
Geza Ulole said:
How about storage charges at inland container depot?
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kwani they dont pay those storage charges at Mombasa??? my friend, Ugandan traders still pay storage charges at the Mombasa port....but after the launch of the cargo trains, they wont have to pay it in Mombasa since goods will be taken to Nairobi immediately they are offloaded from the ship....in fact this will make it easier for them since they will come from UG to find the goods have already arrived at Nairobi...
 
But paying twice will be a long call! BTW wagon ferries Mv Umoja and Mv Clarence on Lake Victoria are ready to link Port Bell n Mwanza n our narrow gauge to Dar n give ur SGR (where cargo trains can move at a speed of only 80km/h), the run for her money!
 
Geza Ulole said:
But paying twice will be a long call! BTW Mv Umoja and Mv Clarence are already ready to give ur SGR that cargo trains can move at a speed of only 80km/h, the run for her money with our narrow gauge!
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they wont pay twice...they will only pay for offloading/on-loading, then transportation to Nairobi using cargo trains...then finally transportation to Uganda using trucks...it will only take 24-48 hours from the current 7 days...
 
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