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The strategy proposes a new licensing framework with stricter milestone enforcement and automatic revocation for dormant licences.

Companies sitting on dormant licences in your county could lose them. This opens the door to new developers who will actually drill and create local jobs.

The strategy targets a tariff cap of USD 0.07/kWh to make Kenya competitive for geothermal investment.

Lower tariffs could reduce electricity costs for businesses and households near geothermal plants. But without a community benefit clause, savings go to investors, not local residents.

The strategy acknowledges slow land acquisition and compensation processes as a key weakness and proposes streamlining them.

Streamlining land acquisition can mean faster displacement without adequate community consultation. The strategy must include Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) as required by the Constitution of Kenya.

The strategy proposes compliance with NEMA environmental regulations for all geothermal developments.

The strategy does not include independent H2S monitoring near communities. Currently all emissions data comes from plant operators themselves, not independent third parties. This needs to change.

The strategy proposes that geothermal development should benefit local communities through employment and infrastructure development.

The strategy is vague on benefit-sharing. It does not specify what percentage of revenue must go to county governments or affected communities. This gap needs to be addressed with specific numbers and enforcement mechanisms.