The initial premiums had been blamed for being a significant contributor to the high pump prices last year when fuel costs breached Sh200 per litre for the first time in Kenya’s history. Uganda was in the meantime pushing for legal changes that would allow the Uganda National Oil Compa...
A comparison of fuel prices across Africa shows that Kenya only trails the Central African Republic (CAR), Malawi, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, and seven other countries in terms of the most expensive fuel.
HVO requires a modest upfront capital investment but production cost is highly dependent on vegetable oil feedstock prices, which can make up to 60%–75% of the final product price. Lignocellulosic FT and HPO biofuels have relatively low raw material cost, but more expensive processes, requiring...
Studies have indicated that gender-targeted interventions like providing loans to women in Kenya have been found to increase the consistent use of LPG (Hsu et al., 2021). Introducing smaller cylinders, in addition to subsidies for clean fuel, can also ensure sustained usage of LPG. Notably, ...
The Epra has, however, been reflecting an even weaker position with its July 14 figure coming in at Sh144.48 per US dollar. The weakening shilling has meant that oil marketers pay more to import oil products.Kenya has since 2010 been setting retail prices for fuel, a move t...
Fuel consumption between July and September plunged to the lowest level in at least five years, with the decline coming amid increased taxation that negated the benefits of a drop in global prices, with local pump prices crossing the Sh200-mark for the first time....
Hypothetically, the prices will get down as the scale of the production increases. The price setting and the associated support policies need to take into account all the three main benefits of aviation biofuels: (a) Reduction of external emissions of GHGs in order to reduce the climate change...
Section 5, “Prospects for Investing in Energy Production in Energy 5.0”, considers the issues of funds’ sources in these industries, the reduction in investment risks against the background of fluctuations in prices for non-renewable energy sources, and the role of public policy in their regul...