A aerial view of the River Nile in Cairo. Picture: AFP/Marwan Naamani
By ROSEMARY MIRONDO, Special Correspondent (email the author)
Posted Sunday, October 16 2011 at 11:06
Posted Sunday, October 16 2011 at 11:06
Dr Khairy noted that although the Nile Basin was endowed with natural resources of every kind, their distribution was not uniform in time and space.
“This calls for a concerted basin-wide effort for optimal harnessing and utilisation of the basin’s abundant resources.To address these challenges effectively, it was prudent to devise holistic and strategic regional or basin-wide plans.
The regional and basin-wide approaches will steer us towards maximising benefits from these natural resources.”
Other challenges facing the region were severe power supply uncertainties, with increasing power demand and inability to raise capital for needed generation and transmission lines.
Dr Khairy said reliance on emergency power generation at more than US 12cts/kWh frustrated socioeconomic development efforts, while most potential sites identified were less than US 3cts/kWh in generation cost.
There was a need to co-ordinate power market development under the East African Power Pool (EAPP) with implementation of interconnectors by the NBI
Dr Khairy noted that although the Nile Basin was endowed with natural resources of every kind, their distribution was not uniform in time and space.
“This calls for a concerted basin-wide effort for optimal harnessing and utilisation of the basin’s abundant resources.To address these challenges effectively, it was prudent to devise holistic and strategic regional or basin-wide plans.
The regional and basin-wide approaches will steer us towards maximising benefits from these natural resources.”
Other challenges facing the region were severe power supply uncertainties, with increasing power demand and inability to raise capital for needed generation and transmission lines.
Dr Khairy said reliance on emergency power generation at more than US 12cts/kWh frustrated socioeconomic development efforts, while most potential sites identified were less than US 3cts/kWh in generation cost.
There was a need to co-ordinate power market development under the East African Power Pool (EAPP) with implementation of interconnectors by the NBI.
Courtesy of The East African
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