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This article focuses on green energy especially about electricity.Importance of electricity is growth in any fields like education healthcare economic and etc.In this article we understood that people from Kenya is developing to better side. It makes their lives easier but not everyone has equal access to electricity due to infrastructure and some people cant afford it.Access to electricity without destroying nature is the most relevant issue in 21 centure. Kenya is as an example how government has to create, invest and motivate people using green energy. Nowadays Kenya has a big role as a centre of renewable energy. I believe we will consider it and move to green energy.

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In the article “How does access to electricity impact citizens in Kenya?” states that Kenya has made great progress towards access to electricity. The research of Dr Jennifer Brass, from Indiana University shows that access to electricity doubled from around 40% in 2015 to 80% in 2025. Moreover, 90% of this electricity comes from geothermal and hydropower. This highlights the importance of renewable energy in the country. However, Dr Elizabeth Baldwin, from the University of Arizona says that  ‘access’ doesn’t necessarily mean access to the electricity grid”, in addition  Dr Christopher Gore, from Toronto Metropolitan University, explains that in Kenya, national statistics don’t clearly distinguish the differences in access to electricity. On the social aspect, previously suggested that access to electricity leads to decrease in political participation, but it was disproven by Dr Alesha Porisky, from Northern Illinois University, who says that access simply changes the way in which people are politically active, for example politicians now use social media to connect with citizens. Having electricity in the home brings health benefits, but it is very expensive to expand the grid infrastructure to reach everyone. Overall, Kenya has made remarkable progress in this field, but some parts of the population still remain without access to electricity.

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The well known big county like Africa has manual problems. By pointing to the article we have got a big problem concerning the access to electricity in Kenya. A lot of citizens do not have enough access to electricity. Nowadays it is sort of a matter of which leads other challenges. By the way Kenya is the leader of “Green energy”, there are more ways to plan strategically to share the needs for everyone. There enough amount of natural sources, geothermal sources and hydro power.

We live a century where everything works more efficiently, faster and automatically: here shouldn’t be allowed or need to be lived in area without electricity. Furthermore, imagine that we are studying on the exact programs/apps, online classes which need big scale of power, we are working on a big platforms with big data or even we are cooking, cleaning with so many devises on daily basis.

In the fact, this lack of energy leads to the consequences like staying in one position, don’t improve. And I want to emphasise it like “wasting time” because we can gain a free time by dividing some work with other electronic devices (washing machine, light in the basement, blender)!

Depending on capabilities and the Kenya environment I made several decisions. Political participation in social media and facilitated technologies is well helping in this case. But the problem concerning expensive payments, the quality of supplied electricity rising economical and theoretical aspects.

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According to the article, electricity has a very strong impact on Kenyan citizens in all areas like health,economy,education and etc.The text shows that access to electricity play significant role in country.

Many of people have breathing problems.If they will have electricity,they don’t use kerosene which is harmful for their health.Air at home will be better and it prevents health problems.

Political and social activities is not disappearing but changing.They switch from traditional participation to social media.They can participate all activities being at home.It is increasing use of digital tools that shows high level of development.

Students can study even in evening with electric that is also more effective. It gives them more opportunities.

In conclusion, access to electricity solve many problems and bring benefit for Kenya.

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This text was quite informative. Especially the data on access to electricity in Kenya during certain periods. The sources of this data are also interesting, especially the words of professors and their research, which are quite fascinating. The way they figured everything out with extreme precision and conducted various interviews with direct witnesses, or more precisely, with residents. Thanks to them, many things became clearer.

Overall, I liked the tactics of Kenyan politicians. The fact that they try to communicate with residents directly through social media is very impressive. They have a certain rapport with them, after which residents don't really need to wonder what their politicians are doing and so on. This way, politicians don't have to expect any rebellion on their part.

This is definitely better than Kazakhstan's communication policy. It is not that I am complaining, it is just that our politicians are doing something, but the changes are not visible. Just like in Kenya, we also have unequal distribution of opportunities to get energy and all that.

Maiken Aruzhan

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Access to electricity and its impact on Kenya’s citizens is huge, and have you ever thought why half of the Kenya’s population does not have electricity at all, even if they have the access to electricity? First of all, electricity in Kenya is super expensive, despite the high pricing, electricity is slow and sometimes can’t even make lights work. An average person physically can not afford to have electricity at their homes, small villages does not even have access to electricity, but how about those people who can afford electricity? how does simple electricity impact their life’s? We are daily users of electricity, and we might not understand how such a simple thing like electricity can change someone’s life for better. For example, kids who study at schools would have an ability to do their homework’s at night, and watch some movies. People would be able to use a refrigerator to keep their food fresh, charge their phones, wash clothes in a washing machine, overall life quality improves.

Even tho electricity access in Kenya has improved, still a lot of people either can’t afford it or they don’t even have an access to electricity at all. However, we still see the improvements and in the future more people in Kenya would have access to electricity

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Aiken Yessirkep

The article focuses on Kenya, which is a country that has improved its energy potential by using its access to electricity. and renewable energy sources. Electricity access has seen a near doubling over the past ten years, and renewable sources now supply more than 90% of the energy.

However, some households still face challenges such as high costs, limited usage, and unreliable energy supply. As the text mentions, equal access to electricity has shifted political participation towards digital technologies. In conclusion, reliable electricity supply has improved various sectors (such as healthcare, education, and business), but many residents still struggle to fully benefit from it.

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That article raises problem about of electricity in Kenya. It's about big access to electicity, and impacts for a citizens in Kenya. Electricity access atracted attention of the political participation, Scientists explains a research and opinion about their economics. And the major impact and the main challenge for citizens is the cost, as it very expensive to connect, and even if its connected it has unreliable supply, that blackouts are common for a households. In the end, every action has a consequence, both good and bad, and even if Kenya has big progress in access, in reality there has problem for population, which is cannot benefit advances.

Ismailov Tamerlan

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This article focuses on how access to electricity has affected Kenya. In 2015, the percentage of the households with access to electricity was 40%, but by 2025 it had doubled to 80%. But the problem is that not all of these people are have full access to electricity. About 90% of these households use renewable sources like geothermal and hydro power. Although they say that most households and businesses have access to electricity. But in fact, the supply is irregular (blackouts are common) and not everyone can afford to install and use electricity. Now let's move on to politics and social life. Increased electricity access doesn’t decrease political participation, it simply changes the way in which people are politically active. It means that, people have begun to use technologies to be more engaged with politics, and politicians also use social media to connect with citizens.

However, Electricity is incredibly important for economic activity, education (lighting to study in the evenings and accessing information) and communication. It also better for a health, lightning and cooking stoves remove poor indoor air from candles, kerosene lanterns and also charcoal stoves.

If we summarize, not every household in Kenya  has access to electricity. Because of the price and complexity of installation. Although Kenya has made progress in using electricity in recent years, a large number of the population does not have access to it.

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Kenya is country in Africa, which made a big progress in electricity access in country. They produce a green energy and use a renewable resources to create power. Most of the progress was in last decade, when percentage of electricity access increased twice. From 40% in 2015 to 80% in 2025.

Of course this progress has an impact to social, economic and political life of Kenya. People are more educated and less interested in politics, because they can “chill” with electricity at their homes. Country can sell electricity to neighbors to make an economic benefit. Also selling to neighbors can increase their influence in region.

Everything is not that good as we can think after reading the statistics. It’s still expensive for poor part of country to connect electricity, reason is expensive subsidies. And citizens can’t meaningfully benefit this advances yet, but it doesn’t hide fact that Kenya made a leap in the way of electricity access.

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Mazhitov Daniel

The study reveals that despite the fact that access to electricity in Kenya is increased rapidly, residents still could not fully use electricity and its quality was low. The group of researchers from all around the world was investigating: Why there’s still problems with electricity usage in Kenya, even though they are using green energy mostly and statistics shows that almost 80% of households are accessing electricity easily?

Researchers conducted a survey in which they found out how much electricity a resident uses, what sources of electricity they use, what the price is and etc. Through the survey, they identified two main problems: Firstly, many residents simply could not afford the price of electricity, as the cost was very high (due to the difficulties of installing electric grid, for example, in a village) and secondly - the quality of the electricity network, which was low and because of this there were constant blackouts(power outages). There has also been some debate that access to electricity reduces local political participation, but researchers have shown that grid access does not decrease people's political participation, but only changes it. In summary, researchers concluded that even though Kenya has made great progress in the expansion of renewable energy, the reality is that a huge part of the population cannot use this electric energy fully.

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Nettsev Yaroslav. Review of the article.

The article starts by explaining the main goals and objectives of the research done by Kenya, USA and Canada. The passage focuses on electricity development in Kenya and how its expansion impacts the life of regular citizens. From the span of 10 years percentage of people who have access to electricity increased from 40% up to 80%. This change, of course, could not help but leave its mark on the country. Researchers made surveys to determine how this shift impacted the population. Researchers made an initial assumption that the increased access to electricity makes people less active in political and social events. Although, this was later disproven after new research and data were collected. It turned out people just switch from offline voting and participation to online if they had access to increased electricity. Furthermore, electricity is very beneficial for economic activities, education and communication. Another not so obvious impact of electricity is on human health, as the article states with electricity used for cooking and lighting there is no need for kerosene lanterns, charcoal or wood stoves, which are notorious air pollutants. As highlighted in the text, same level of electricity should be affordable for everyone and Kenya is trying to achieve this. Although there are obstacles such as expensive costs of creating new infrastructure and great distances to cover remote rural areas. Taking everything said before into consideration, we can say that electricity has a huge impact on Kenyan society and economy. Electricity is very beneficial in all aspects of life and Kenya is on the right path to achieving better standards of living.

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This text about impact and importance of electricity grid in Kenya. For these 10 years the number of connected households increased from 40% to 80%. And Kenya is on the top for using green energy from renewable hydro and geothermal power, which means that the negative impact from fossil fuels decreased.

After connecting the electricity to households, some local research assistants took part in a research. As the result, they found out some citizens more likely to stay at home rather than spend time in the community, engage in political life. Despite to this, access to electricity has much more benefis: improved quality of education, quality of air, government can engage to citizens by social media.

However, even the many people connected to electricity, it's very expensive to reach everyone in the area. Some citizens cannot afford payments to the electricity.

Summarizing, Kenya has made great progress in the expansion of electricity in recent years.

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I understand how we can read text rightly, in this lesson I used skimming, scanning, and SQ3R methods when we completed task with the text of electricity in Kenya. I understand text well than before.

How does access to electricity impact citizens in Kenya?

Electricity access in Kenya was one of the most important problem for government. Households with access to electricity were around 40% in 2015, so businesses and citizens couldn’t live without power. Government prepare a plan to decide this problem.

In 2025 percentage access to electricity is 80%. Cause, Kenya builded new infrastructure of electricity. Kenya builded hydroelectric and geothermal stations.

After that people can use electricity for education and use lamp and fridge. Businesses work more efficiently. And government use social media for talking with citizens.

However Kenya also has problem like before, so blackout are very common. In conclusion I think Kanye can solve all the problem

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The article I have read discusses about how electricity is managed in Kenya. It shows the impact and importance of electricity system to citizens and their development. According to article the most significant moment is clarifying that Kenya has made a progress in using electricity from 40% to 80% in ten years. Nevertheless, many of them still struggle with the cost of it. Author emphasizes that there is a problem with equal distribution.

On the other hand access to electricity helps people to follow with politics, see what is happening in the world and helping them communicate and socialize. However, it is clear that Kenya still face difficulties at managing this.

This case shows that sometimes by doing something impressive we should not forget that key point is quality. Otherwise it can not be useful and permanent.

In conclusion, Kenya should pay attention to citizens by making it more accessible and equally efficient. Because electricity directly impacts to the people’s health, social life and level of life.

Abdildina Zhuldyz

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The article provided the information about the electricity access in Kenya. It said that the number of electricity users increased twice for the last decade from 40 to 80 percent. Moreover, it was also mentioned that Kenya supports the "Green path" and tries to implement more renewable energy sources like solar panels instead of others which produce harmful chemicals to the environment. From the first glance, it seems pretty impressive and enthusiastic. However, after the researchers from the article went deep, it was founded that there were some other realistic and, unfortunately, not so optimistic results. To get an honest information from locals, the survey was conducted where people shared the information about their electricity usage. Some said that they even could not afford to pay electricity bills or that blackouts happened often. Also, another project of these researches contradicts the point that Kenyan citizens who use electricity are less interested in politics. On the other hand, it allows them an online and more convenient version of tracking it. Furthermore, electricity, especially powered by geothermal and hydra sources, is less polluted and dangerous for health condition.

In conclusion, the authors said that the situation is quite contradictory and complicated: even though the authorities try to provide subsidies, it is still hard for the most households to support themselves with the everyday availability to electricity.

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In the article, the main idea was about electricity in Kenya. Their impacts, challenges, renewable resources, etc. The research provides evidence that renewable resources can increase the quality of life of citizens. For example, having electricity in the home decrease the amount of diseases. Because in the past people used candles, which smells badly affected on health. But, of course, it was challenges like high cost. It was difficult to expand grid infrastructure, especially in rural areas. It was required a lot of actions to provide all of citizens qualitative electricity. The author mentioned about energy justice, that was helped to achieve the goal.

Moreover, before reading this text, I didn't expect that Kenya may achieve high progress, especially in this area. They are started to develop very actual sphere in the world. And may be for some countries they are successful example.

In conclusion, the topic about electricity remains actual nowadays. Because it has impact on economy, health, ecology, and even on the relationships between countries. It's important to have access to inexpensive electricity, and use the environment to get renewable resources.

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Sapa Nuray

According to this article about electricity access in Kenya, the increase in 10 years was interesting. It was surprising how just access to electricity gave the opportunity and influenced the social life of citizens . innovation, improved education, health care and economic processes.

However, with the advent of more comfortable conditions, people became a little indifferent to politics, they stopped participating in it. Unfortunately, this kind of increase did not help the majority of population to access the electricity. It is expensive and irregular(blackouts).

In conclusion, I would recommend the government to find the cheaper way to give the opportunity for other citizens, who cannot afford the electricity.

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Review of the Article: How does access to electricity impact citizens in Kenya?

In this article, author discusses the reasons of lack of access to electricity in Kenya and its impacts on political and social activity.

In 2015 40% of Kenyans had access to electricity and In 2025 around 80% of population of Kenya had access, moreover they use a lot of green energy such as geothermal and hydro power, but the country still faces some challenges, such as irregular supply, cost to expand the grid and cost of using electricity. This leads to people’s dissatisfaction with government and politicians.

Mainly, this article focuses on impacts of this situation on population, especially on social and political activities. At first, researchers thought that access to electricity will decrease the participation in political activities because people will stay at home more and not participate in discussions, but with further research they think that it won’t decrease but change, because with electricity they will have access to social media, were they could express they thought and ideas. Moreover, increasing the access to electricity will help to develop businesses, healthcare, education, communications and quality of air. Author highlights energy justice, meaning that everyone should have access to affordable electricity and its benefits.

This article tells us about Kenya’s effort to expand access to electricity, especially green energy, but because of some challenges, especially economic, not everyone can benefit from it

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Sairan Nursezim

In this article we learned about problem of electrify in Kenya and how does influence to people in citizens Kenya. The author highlights how the electricity connected with education, economic, and might say with condition of people because there is electricity in the daily life all of them. The key point is , that electricity is not about technology, but also electricity is about fairness I guess. Moreover, supply limits in electricity in the little town, rural areas are still left behind. Government decisions and invisments are important for developing. Reliable and equal infrastructure brings long-term benefits, such as stronger social equality. In conclusion, I think this problem is too important for solution. Electricity is connected for all of space, and in order to not fall behind others, government have to search any idea. But our country has the same problem, and we have to decided our problem too. We have, but our level of problem might be below.

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In the article “How does access to electricity impact citizens in Kenya?” the author states that electricity have huge influence on citizens, however, people cannot afford electricity because of cost. The article focuses on impact participation in social and political areas. Due to the fact that the percentage of households with access to electricity has increased from around 40% in 2015 to almost 80% in 10 years, questions are being raised about the challenges and availability of electricity. One of the main challenge was decreasing political participation, but, Dr Alesha Porisky, from Northern Illinois University conducted a research in which scientists found out that political participation will change its form due to access to electricity. For example, the population will use social media, Internet and websites to now new information about government’s activities or vote and discuss some problems. Moreover, access to such resource will raise the economy of Kenya and bring a huge benefit to entrepreneurs. However, a lot of people cannot afford cost of electricity. The population do not have enough money to pay bills for installation of suitable equipment for electricity and using electricity.

Overall, despite the fact that 90% electricity in Kenya creates from renewable sources, most of citizens cannot yet afford electricity.

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Article named “How does access to electricity impact citizens in Kenya” reviewed impacts and challenges of rapid growth of access to electricity by conducting a survey with social research team that helped to gain more insights in order to understand the situation deeper.

Even after making incredible changes during the past 10 years towards access to electricity, it was stated that statistics do not into account households with small solar panels and single lightbulb or someone whose house is connected to the grid. Theoretically, it is possible to everyone gain electricity, however in practice it is showed that supply is irregular that leads to frequent blackouts. Moreover, people cannot afford installing or using electricity. Thus, people have limited access and failed hopes for sustainable energy.

Results of research team discovered significant decrease in political participation, that lead to a hypothesis: Once people have received electrical technologies, it reduced a motivation to engage and contribute to political life. However, as Dr. Alesha Porisky stated, electricity access does not decrease, but changes the way in which people are politically active. Therefore, electricity simplified political activities and added wide range of new forms of digital participation in politics. In addition, with access to electricity: economy, education and communication were significantly improved.

The main challenge to fully benefit from access to electricity, its high costs and difficult to expand grids due to obstacles in rural areas.

To conclude, article achieved to deliver information and insights about Kenya’s situation with electricity and effectively highlighted benefits and drawbacks of progress.

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In the article “How does access to electricity impact citizens in Kenya?” we have written about electricity in Kenya.Actually Kenya has great process of expansion electricity in recent years,but in reality,most of the citizens cannot yet meaningfully benefit from these advances.

The research shows that,most Kenyans are limited in their opportunity to use electricity in their business or at home.It is very expensive to expand the grid infrastructure to reach everyone,especially in rural areas.It directly affects on people’s health,education and business.Most of the households cannot connect to the grid and make their own personal business.To put it simply,electric lighting and cooking stoves remove the need of candles charcoal stoves and etc things,that produce poor indoor air quality which can affect on people’s health.Moreover,have no electricity also connected to the relations between people and politics.People are more involved through social networks,also they can unite in protests for reliable energy supply.

The article concludes that,it is still a problem in Kenya with the access for electricity.The concept of justice has become a global important problem.

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In the last class I read the article “How does access to electricity impact citizens in Kenya?”. Author of this article discusses that statistics sometimes can be misleading as in the case with Kenya’s access to electricity. The study reveals that some people can use large amount of electricity, while others have limits and possess energy only enough to charge lightbulb from solar panels. This injustice affects social and political life of people in Kenya. Citizens may see news, events that go in their country through social media, but sometimes they even cannot charge their smartphones, which sounds insane for people from my country. The most heartbreaking part for me was reading that Kenya’s electricity access rate is one of the best in Africa. It means that other countries don’t have enough sources to buy solar panels. The article concludes that the main problem is infrastructure and cost of providing energy to new houses and buildings. Government just doesn’t have such amount of money to connect every household to grid, especially in rural areas. This highlights the importance of increasing the ratio of GDP directed to improvement of electricity infrastructure, as it was shown in the article that if every human being have access to simple electronic devices and internet, it will increase the standards of living significantly.

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Kenya recently opened access to a electricity. And it gives many opportunities for citizens of Kenya. As mentioned in the text, only 40% of the Kenyan population had access to electricity in 2015, but this figure has increased to 80% by 2025.

Since, introduction of electricity in the country, residents have gained many opportunities, such as ability for students to study at night and for residents to keep connect of what is happening in the country through social media. However, there are also have disadvantages,such as the lack of access to electricity in small villages that are far from the city, as well as the high cost of electricity, which not everyone can afford.

In conclusion, I would like to say that electricity for Kenya is not just lights, for Kenya it is way for better life of citizens

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Anafiya Arailym. Access to electricity for every citizen in Kenya has impacted on economic, political, health and social lives. Overall, it has positive impact and some challenges that country is facing.

First of all, thank to electricity businesses can operate more efficiently, and households benefit from new ways for income. Moreover, electricity had provided chance for students to have access to wider range of information, and study whenever they want. Scientists thought that social media will reduce participation in politics. However, it had shown opposite result, and citizens became more aware of politics and engaged.

On the other hand, a lot of families faced frequent blackouts and high cost of electricity. Thus making electricity less reliable and affordable. Furthermore, access is unequal due to electric grids. In rural areas installation of grids might be harder and more expensive, that’s why people still use small solar panels, while others have full grid connection.

Eventually, electricity access in Kenya is becoming more affordable for every citizen. Yet, despite impressive progress, some amount of people aren’t able to fully benefit due to unreliable supple, high cost and inequality.

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If we will talk about the impact on the citizens of this county,I would like to start with negative side.I mean the access to electricity wasn’t available for everyone,this required money and resources.Also it had some problem like sometimes the electricity didn't work.Next, I would like to add an article about politics to the problems, and in their research, they concluded that access to electricity does not reduce people's activity but rather changes the way they participate. I really liked this idea, as it reveals an important aspect of why we need access to social media.

If we make a full-fledged conclusion, we understand that access to electricity has become a necessity in our time, and although it has its own price in order to become an accessible and natural resource in all countries, the government is committed to providing access. In my opinion and understanding after reading this article, access to electricity has also become a matter of human rights. I mean, without access, you may not know or keep up with the latest news, as other forms of information dissemination, such as radio or newspapers, are disappearing.

Berikkozha Fatima

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Access to electricity in Kenya increased two times from 40% in 2015 and 80% in 2025. Also this country is an great example of eco friendly consuming and green energy, according to statistics, 90% of their energy comes from renewable sources. However, energy injustice is a common thing among the population in Kenya. One family have only one little lamp and other may have an whole house connected to electricity, also blackouts are happening very often. In a recent research, studies show that increasing access of energy resources decreases level of political participation, and not only access but also quality on energy supplies. Nowadays Electricity access is necessary for healthcare, education, businesses etc, and also electricity helps to reduce air pollution, because people from kerosene and diesel started using an electricity.

The last article helps us understand the meaning of electricity injustice that is not only problem of Kenya, but also increasing in Kazakhstan and many other countries.

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The article focuses on the access to electricity in Kenya, which surprised me. What was surprising was their achievements in this field. because like everyone else, I had the opinion that Africa lacks water, electricity, and all the necessary resources for a good standard of living. It's amazing that they have a well-developed principle of green energy. The fact that they use hydroelectric power speaks volumes. Even most developed countries struggle with the use of green energy. Also, with the help of energy access, the Kenyan government has solved problems with education, business, and household, which has improved the country's GDP.

Of course, there were also disadvantages to the even distribution. Еven though Kenya has solved the problem of access to electricity, they have not taken into account the fact that a large number of people are still unable to benefit from these achievements due to the uneven distribution of resources. This shows that despite the good progress in electricity access, the problem remains relevant.

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First and foremost, Kenya has almost doubled electricity access in the past decade, demonstrating almost 80% of households by 2025. Additionally, 90% of this electricity comes from renewable sources, mainly geothermal and hydropower, which makes Kenya a leader in green energy. By contrast, author argued that there are numerous problems despite they improved access to electricity. For instance, the citizens cannot afford electricity because of the high cost of services, since they had no electricity before and it costs an arm and a leg. However, there are several benefits. Electricity supports education, health and businesses. I believe that electricity access in this country is more than a technical issue. It has impacts on social life and economic growth.

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Its not a deep article, its not a text that tells about peoples story, but it will hit harder than some of the articles that means to hit. Just the clear facts and statistics shows the standard of living in kenya. While we using the electricity, phones, internet and dont even think about the level of comfort we received. Although access to electricity has increased, most families still face high electricity costs and blackouts. And even though the world tries to help, it is still not enough in the long run. I hope that it will change, and learned to be grateful for the thing that i have