The Ministry of Infrastructure has embarked on a campaign to use available energy in the country more efficiently. The pilot project plans to distribute 800,000 energy saving bulbs that consume 15watts.
Simultaneously, 5,000 households which used electricity water heaters will replace them with Solar Water Heaters (SWH).
The government will also embark on renewable energy projects which will include solar photovoltaic plants, wind energy and micro-hydroelectric projects. Plans to develop a wind atlas to explore the potential of wind energy will be supported by installation of wind turbines producing 300kW of energy to power 1,000 households.
Tree planting campaigns and use of energy saving cook stoves in rural households are some of the strategies the ministry is seeking to implement while people will be encouraged to use other alternatives such as saw dust, peat, coffee husks, carbonised papyrus instead of firewood and charcoal.
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