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Why Energy Is Becoming a Strategic Issue for Kenyan Hospitals

While just about 28% of healthcare facilities in Kenya still lack reliable electricity access, many grid-connected facilities continue to experience power interruptions, voltage fluctuations, or inadequate backup systems. In sub-Saharan Africa, only half of hospitals…

Kenya’s Solar Rush Risks a Quality Crisis for Schools

Kenya is standing at the edge of one of Africa’s most ambitious clean energy revolutions. Cleaner alternatives like solar electric cooking, LPG, biogas, and hybrid renewable systems are slowly but surely replacing firewood, diesel, and reliance on an unreliable grid…

If Kenya’s Government Doesn’t Act, School Solarization and Clean Cooking Will Stall

With nearly 90 percent of the country’s electricity coming from renewable sources, Kenya continues to be recognised as one of Africa’s leaders in renewable energy. However, while the country’s electricity system is among the cleanest in Africa..

Miale Solar Secures EUR 5M to Scale Zero-Upfront Solar at 50% Below Grid Rates

Miale Solar Inventions Ltd, a leading Kenyan solar developer serving commercial, industrial and institutional (C&I) energy users, with strategic roots in Sweden, has secured a EUR 5 million funding commitment from Trine

How Two Kenyan Organizations Are Turning Energy into Women’s Power

Every year, women in Africa spend an estimated 40 billion hours collecting firewood, which could be used for education, income, or rest. Eighty percent of rural households still cook with charcoal and firewood.

Kenya’s Dirty Kitchen Secret: PUMUAir and Miale to End Smoke in Schools

A recent Miale survey across schools in Western, Nyanza, and Coast regions revealed that over 90% of kitchens still rely on smoky traditional stoves, with wood and charcoal being predominant.

Firewood or Solar Cooking? Numbers Behind Kwale’s Cooking Crisis

More than 90% of rural Kenyan schools still rely on firewood for cooking. Nationally, over 250 tons of firewood are consumed annually by boarding schools alone,

Miale & KCB Lead the Charge in Solar Cooking for Schools in Kenya

Kenya’s schools are in critical need of a clean energy revolution. Some 90 percent of schools in the country still rely on firewood and charcoal as their primary cooking fuel.

Kenya’s Clean Cooking Strategy Ignores Biggest Opportunity – Institutional Kitchens

When the Kenyan Ministry of Energy and Petroleum released the Kenya National Electric Cooking Strategy (KNeCS) in 2024, the move was hailed…

Solar Farms Driving Africa’s Clean Energy Transition

The global energy sector currently undergoes a transformation at a pace few could have predicted a decade ago. According to the latest research by global energy thinktank Ember, clean energy sources