StanChart may suspend financing pact with Kenya refinery Business Standard UK-based Standard Chartered Bank, which signed a $350-million financing arrangement with Essar Energy's Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd (KPRL) in June 2012, has threatened it would suspend the pact owing to rising defaults by KPRL. Under the ... See all stories on this topic » Business Standard

There is more to the KPC saga than nepotism; is it someone's turn to eat? Daily Nation Three years ago, the company took a massive Sh8.2 billion loan from a syndicate of banks to construct the extension of the pipeline to Western Kenya. That loan is now ... The new Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Mr Davis Chirchir, has sent home the ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Nation

US company eyes African PV market Creamer Media's Engineering News The company was currently advancing a pilot pre-paid solar PV project in Kenya, which it hoped would demonstrate the feasibility of a prepaid energy user system in isolated areas without access to the national grid. However, First Solar's primary focus ... See all stories on this topic »

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