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From the article, I learned that access to electricity has a powerful impact on the lives of citizens in Kenya. It improves education because students can study at night and schools can use modern technology. In healthcare, electricity allows clinics to store vaccines and use medical equipment. For the economy, businesses can operate longer hours, farmers can process crops, and more jobs are created. It also improves quality of life at home, giving families access to lighting, refrigeration, and entertainment. Importantly, it helps reduce inequality, as rural areas get more opportunities and women and girls benefit from more time for education and work. Overall, electricity is not just about light—it drives development, health, equality, and growth in Kenya.

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Electricity has expanded very quickly. Almost 8 out of 10 household are counted as having “access”, and and 90% of the country’s power is from clean sources. In general this is an impressive achievement and makes Kenya stand out in Africa.

But the article also explained that Access does not always mean the same thing. Some families only have a small solar panel that only runs one single bulb or charges a phone. Others a fully connected to the national grid where they get to use multiple appliances a day eg, microwaves, fridges, tv and other heavy appliances. Power cuts are also common and many people cannot afford to pay the monthly bills. So basically, even though the numbers look high and there is improvement in Kenya’s electricity, Reliable and affordable electricity is still out of reach for many people.

Having electricity affects almost every part of life. At least I know it affects me personally and it ruins my day. It helps me study at night. It helps people’s business, charge my gadgets and also talking about kerosene… this is the most underrated comment. In Africa when there is no power people rely on kerosene, lamps, very noisy generators from every home, the bad smoke that pollutes the air which makes it hard to sleep or do anything.

Also I do agree with the Dr who said that electricity does not reduce political participation - it changes the way people participate. Instead of going out of the house many people rely on social media to pass their messages, and politicians can even use social media to reach citizens. Information is passed across even more sufficiently in my opinion with electricity in my opinion.

So I would say true progress is not just about the numbers but by making sure it’s reliable across the whole country.

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In the article “How does access to electricity impact citizens in Kenya?” author tells us about the inequality between households and people in having or not having any electricity at their workplaces or houses. The main idea of the text was to provide a trustworthy information about this global problem not only in Kenya, but also in some other countries. A lot of researches can also be read in the text.

The most people in Kenya do not have an opportunity to be able to use digital devices and any technologies. The reason for this problem is that the electricity is not shared equally and properly through the country and its citizens. Therefore they have to struggle with problems not only in their houses, but also when they are working, studying, cooking or even trying to become healthier.

It was interesting for me how the electricity influences the way people approach their political and social lives. Although it’s beneficial for you and your family having the ability to use the electricity, it has its own drawbacks as well. As a result of it, you may become less interested in some important aspects of your life. Since people have their phones, tablets, TVs or laptops which are connected to worldwide internet, they start to prefer to stay at house watching celebrities’ lives, going through “urgent” news rather than going out with their family or friends or taking part in crucial political questions.

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The article discusses the breakthrough in Kenyan households' access to electricity, which has doubled over the past decade, yet they are still not fully able to utilize it. It also informs that whilst Kenya has raised the level of access, in fact, the supply faced many issues, like irregularity of supply, blackouts, and very high costs. However, discussion with the focus groups allowed locals to share their experience about the affordability of electricity.

According to the research on the impact on social and political activities, they came to the conclusion that access to electricity does not decrease citizens' activity in politics, discarding previous false conclusions.

Considering the locals' thoughts on the impacts of electricity access, "even the poor households have phones that must be charged" says Winnie.

In conclusion, the most challenging part of using electricity is its affordability and the low supply level. Meaning, whilst Kenya made progress, implementation into everyday life became harder.

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Accessing electricity in Kenya impact to economic activities like running a business, lighting to study in the evenings, accessing information and communication. Also, it impacts on people health cooking stoves remove need of candles, kerosene, wood stoves which produce bad air quality. However, it is very expensive to reach everyone, especially in rural areas. It is also expensive to use electricity, for many poor households

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Article explores research on how access to electricity affects people of Kenya.

Article covers the change in access percentage among households and production over the decade, how social and political participation changed. From the article we also get information that Kenya is leading country in Africa in terms of electricity access and sustainable energy. It also highlights strugles that come with achieving acceptable electricity coverage. Main strugles include irregular supply and affordability question.

Main issue of the research is that no standard was applied in determining "access", so quote: “In Kenya, national statistics don’t clearly distinguish between someone with a

small solar panel powering a single lightbulb and someone whose house is connected to the

grid and who has an electric cooking stove, fridge and TV.” We cannot rely on this information too much.

To summarize, access to electricity proves to have positive impact on people in various areas, including but not limited to economics, education, healthcare. But despite government help, such as subsidies, poor households cannot afford reliable electricity access.

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The question I asked myself after reading the article was "How come Kenya, being a leader in renewable energy sources it does not come off with electricity access for all citizens?". The first and foremost reason is probably high cost and not efficient political actions. No access to electricity hits the hardest the poor population of Kenya, because it totally connects to all daily needs and major ones like education, communication and food. The previous research findings say decreasing political participation due to no electricity access is an absolutely reliable situation. Because how are people going to be able to participate and vote with no internet and even electricity? I think in this particular case government care less about people.

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Nurmanbek Daulet

The article describes how access to electricity has increased in Kenya and what changes this has brought to people's lives. In 10 years, the number of connected homes and farms has almost doubled, and the country has begun to actively use renewable energy sources such as geothermal and hydroelectric power. In my opinion, this is a very good indicator, because many people now have electricity, which has given them more opportunities.

However, despite the improvements, many families still face difficulties: electricity is expensive, there are frequent power cuts, and in rural areas it is very difficult to connect to the grid.

Despite all this, having electricity offers important advantages, such as the ability to study in the evening, develop a business, charge phones, and even take care of one's health, as there is no longer a need to use kerosene or firewood. It seems to me that people are not yet accustomed to the changes and have not yet learned to use all the opportunities that the internet and electricity offer, but we can see that they are gradually beginning to improve their daily lives.

Electricity is also changing political life. People have started attending meetings less often, but they are more actively involved in politics through the internet and social networks. I think these are very good changes that increase people's contribution to politics, because with the help of the internet and social networks, they can influence politics from a distance, which not only makes their lives easier, but also increases the number of people who are aware of the political situation in the country.

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Kenya’s circumstance

Over the decade, Kenya’s government have reached new level in electricity supply for the households. But, It is only in paperwork. In reality, families are struggling to apply that electricity on their own because of high costs. One thing is to supply, however final product should be accessible for everyone, not only for the marked individuals.

It can be noted that in 10 years there was great increase in electricity access, almost doubled. Actually, for the African country it is great achievement.

I have got an understanding that main source of energy is getting from renewable sources.Even in Kazakhstan, it is not like that.

Main thing that we should consider is electricity grid.  Some houses have it, some of them don’t. Here is great showment of inequality in getting electricity from government.

Maybe, there is competition in supply electricity between companies. Private companies could charge whatever they want.

I doubt about Kenya’s government. Because it is only in documents. Let’s be real CEO of private companies could be in close relationships with head of officials. If that’s so, it is obvious why people are still struggling to get it. I think it is an excuse to say that it is too costly to provide them electricity.

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The article says about that the Kenya is a leader in green energy, with over 90% of this electricity coming from renewable sources and with one of the highest levels of electricity access in Africa.Additionally statistics shows that on the past decade the percentage of households with access to electricity has nearly doubled.

But does it mean that in the reality the acces to this electricity mean the truly “access” of simple citizens? I think no, because as As Dr Christopher Gore explains, “In Kenya, national statistics don’t clearly distinguish between someone with a small solar panel powering a single lightbulb and someone whose house is connected to the grid and who has an electric cooking stove, fridge and TV.”

Yes that’s fact that the majority of people who live in Kenya have the access to the electricity.But the government ignores the quality of their electricity supply.Also the infrastructure doesn’t developed properly to support rural areas with electricity and if it does then it will be very expensive.Not all the people have enough financial resources to pay the bills and cannot afford the expensive credit payments.

To summarise, yes the Kenya has developed a lot in the maintaining of the renewable energy but not all the households takes the full benefit of it properly.

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Review

That text was informative.

I couldn't image that people who live in tech era don't have access to electricity, because right now it most important things in our life.

Lets comeback to the text. Even thought Kenya have problems with access to electricity, over decade it double people who could have acces to it, that's really impressive for me.

People use reusable power like thermal or hydro cause that will be more effective, but still there is a problem.

I will skip part were they say that access to electricity could make people stop being social active or political active, because social need to adapt to new norm.

Most problem place in money, even though Kenya could double people who have electricity, they don't mention that light in they room, just stove, or huge house that have a lot of electric device, that use a lot of power. Some people couldn't even afford it that really make me think that there a huge abbys between us.

People deserve to have electricity, not for fun, but for basic human needs, especially nor in tech era where in other countries already invent IA, but in some they still have to use kerosene light to see.

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Overall, this article focuses on electricity access and its’ impact on economical and political spheres of Kenya. The challenges in getting the electricity access include the common blackouts in Kenya, high cost of electricity for most people and arising health issues (mostly breathing difficulties due to kerosene and candles usage which can worsen the indoor air quality). These issues put mistrust into politicians. The survey found that as electricity access increases, political engagement increases as well as politicians use social media to engage with people, which contradicts the initial assumption. To conclude, it can be safe to say that Kenya’s government has to come up with stable solution to provide the electricity access for the population.

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Access to electricity in Kenya

From year to year topic of the electricity becoming the most important one worldwide, so do in Kenya as well. Via good strategy and development of electricity infrastructure Kenya become one of the most developed countries in Africa in terms of electricity access. Which is shown in figure, as the percentage of the households that have access to electricity changed from 40 to 80% in just 10 years. Also, 90% of the electricity coming from renewable sources, such as hydro and geothermal power. This type of changes are very important, because it has impact over the health and environment. Since households and businesses used to fossil fuel or candles it was hurting people health heavily and fire hazardous.

Despite statistics are strong and showing good results, there are still a lot of problems with “access” to electricity. Kenya is still economically poor and dependent country, so for ordinary citizens it is very expensive to access for electricity grid, which in turn means that they can’t afford installation of electricity. At the moment such problems have sowed discontent and mistrust to politics from citizens across the country.

We can see that electricity access not only about electricity, but also about health, safety, overall economic development and political stability. There was also a discussion about changes in citizen involvement and participation in political activities across the country. In reality, electricity access haven’t changed involvement of citizens, but changed the way of how they can be involved, from local communities to even much larger communities in social networks, which lead the politicians to join social media.

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In this article, we can see the whole picture of electricity access in Kenya. Over the past time, Kenya has made great progress in terms of electricity, but is still facing some problems. Problems with access to electricity are not only due to infrastructure, but also due to different development, conditions of society. And in this case, renewable energy can be a good solution for rural areas. Electricity has a positive effect on various spheres in human life, such as education, politics and health. I believe that the main goal in Kenya is to ensure that every resident of the country has equal access to electricity.

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Joldasbekova Arailym

The article is about the electricity access in Kenya, its impact on political participation and challenges. The main point is that many citizens struggle with the access to electricity because of the prices, irregular supply and limited abilities. Also it has its own impact even on political participation. People more likely to stay at home when they have electrical technologies there, but increased electricity access doesn’t decrease political participation it only changes the way of political activity. Kenyans use technologies to connect with each other and to be engaged with politics. Some citizens doesn’t have access to electricity so the concept of “Energy justice” is very important, because it gives them many benefits like, education, economic activity and even health.

While the situation with electricity in Kenya is improving every year, some parts of the population still can’t use its benefits.

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Text talks about an access to electricity in Kenya. The percentage of households, which has access to electricity doubled over the past decade. But due to the high cost of installing and using of electricity and unreliable supply most of the households has a limited ability to use electricity. This problem has an impact on political participation and economic activity in Kenya. So they try to achieve The energy justice, which is not easy because of the cost of connection and usage of electricity there.

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In this article was written what kind of impact does access of electricity have in Kenya. In this piece of paper we can learn that Kenya increased their access to electricity almost for 40. It's big difference from what they had before.

In this text had written both advantages and disadvantages of having electricity. Main pros of this event are importance of communication, education, and life-time activity. In addition, because of this access it becomes easier voting for political activities. However, it has one big disadvantage access of electricity can be expensive.

Despite of some challenges that Kenya faced, I think it's a good progression of improving country's economics.

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Access to electricity in Kenya has grown quickly from around 40%in 2015 to 80% in 2025. However they still have problems like : high cost , unreadable supply , and unequal access. Although they mentioned that electricity brings benefits to education, health, business and communication but not everyone can afford it. Politically , electricity changes how people participate shifting from community meetings to digital engagement like social media. The main challenge in achieving justice so all Kenyans have reliable affordable electricity not just partial or expensive access .

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In this article I read about electricity access problem in Kenya. Even though it has the highest level of access to electricity, not everyone can use it enough. To analyse problems related to the electricity, researchers decided to carry out the survey that would show effects of different access to electricity on various aspects of people’s lives. In this paper I was discussed one theory about that allowing citizens more electricity access can lead to poor social and political activities. However researchers found out that it actually don’t decrease the level of these activities, but changed the way of participating, like digital voting. The main problem of providing equal amount of electricity is the cost, because it’s very expensive to allocate grid infrastructure and also pay credit payments.

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in the last 10 years, electricity access in Kenya has grown a lot. From around 40% in 2015 to almost 80% in 2025. Most of this electricity comes from clean sources like geothermal and hydro. This is good for the environmental.

But having access doesn’t always mean people can use electricity well.

Electricity brings many benefits. It helps with the business, studying, health and communication (charging phone, using internet and etc.) Still poor families struggle to afford it.

Electricity also changes politics. Instead of reducing participation people now engage in new ways, such as using social media.

The big challenge is energy justice. Making sure all Kenya’s can get affordable electricity.

I use scanning and skimming methods.

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The whole text is focused on electricity and it's way around the Kenya. The majority of citizens struggle with it's overcharged costs, especially back when it was 2015 when only 40% of the population had access to electricity at home. Nowadays 80% has it within a reach, but still find it pretty pricey. Some people use geothermal/hydro power/solar system to produce electricity and they do it for real. With internet at home they started to communicate face to face less, which makes government worry that the community that participated in politics would lessen, which didn't happen. Kenyan citizens just switched to online discussing. Still many electrical sources remain unreliable, practice shows us that sometimes if the wind is calm or there's no sun it affects the household devices and light. In general it isn't that bad, simply because Kenya is considered to be one of the green supporting countries (i forgot the exact name of it).

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The article "Electricity access in Kenya" is a good example of using renewable resources such as hydro and geothermal power. This demonstrates how electricity impacts the social and political aspects of the country and the changes it can bring to citizens. However, these changes come with challenges such as high costs, unreliable supply, and unequal access. Overall, Kenya is a leader in renewable energy, but achieving affordable and reliable access for all citizens remains a challenge.

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Electricity access in Kenya

Only in the last decade, population with access to electricity in Kenya approximately doubled. Moreover, Kenya has improved its positions in green energy development, with 90% of its power sourced from renewable materials, primarily from geothermal and hydro powers.

While numbers show great improvement, researchers question whether these figures are accurate. The real situation found out to be quite unstable, with regular blackouts, unaffordable by lower class - electricity costs, and rural areas with high costs of installing electricity cables.

by Zhandos

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Scientific article that tells about renewable electricity in Kenya. I understood that text in many point, at politics, social life, health, and economics. At economics part I understood that renewable energy affect on evolving businesses, communication and education quality. Also electricity affects on citizens health, particularly in this text it tells that electricity improves indoor air quality by reducing kerosene and wood. But also it has its own problems, like high usage cost and unequal access between urban areas.