{"id":246385,"date":"2026-10-05T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-not-energy-but-power-why-geothermal-energy-benefits-everyone-in-iceland-but-not-kenya\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T07:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:00:23","slug":"kenya-not-energy-but-power-why-geothermal-energy-benefits-everyone-in-iceland-but-not-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-not-energy-but-power-why-geothermal-energy-benefits-everyone-in-iceland-but-not-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Not Energy, but Power &#8211; Why Geothermal Energy Benefits Everyone in Iceland but Not Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"101\">This article draws on in-person interviews at Mt Suswa, Olkaria, and Menengai with <a href=\"https:\/\/rightsindevelopment.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coalition for Human Rights in Development<\/a> (CHRD) members and partners directly affected by geothermal projects. Interviews were led by the Coalition&#8217;s Research and Learning Facilitator and interviewees identified through the <a href=\"https:\/\/rightsindevelopment.org\/collective-work\/cre\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Community Resource Exchange<\/a> (CRE), a system to facilitate collaborations and co-develop strategies with and among communities defending their rights in the context of international investments&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610050047.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article draws on in-person interviews at Mt Suswa, Olkaria, and Menengai with Coalition for Human Rights in Development (CHRD) members and partners directly affected by geothermal projects. Interviews were led by the Coalition&#8217;s Research and Learning Facilitator and interviewees identified through the Community Resource Exchange (CRE), a system to facilitate collaborations and co-develop strategies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":246386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6481,7424,28972,21873,4688,430,257,7047,254],"class_list":["post-246385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-benefits","tag-energy","tag-geothermal","tag-iceland","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-power","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}