As Kenya grapples with the high costs of energy, causing companies to relocate to countries with affordable energy prices, renewable energy has proved to be technologically viable for consumption and helping companies to cut down on their expenditures. Fast Green Energy, a newly established company, is in the process of forming partnerships with a number of institutions to develop Kenya’s renewable energy sector. Renewable energy is forecast to be the fastest growing energy source in years to come, and is already a significant energy source globally. In 2030, energy demand worldwide will have grown by 45 percent, and most of that growth is forecast from emerging markets. Fast Green Energy seeks to be the alternative to the huge power costs that Kenyans have been grappling with.  By offering renewable energy generated from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, Kenyans have the potential to lower their power costs significantly. One focus for Fast Green Energy will be to look to create a new wave of ‘green houses’ in Kenya through working alongside architects and business institutions to incorporate renewable energy technology at the architectural design stage, and this will lead to the natural progression of market focus on the issue.

Fred Sewe, the Managing Director of Fast Green Energy, said: “The current energy model means that KPLC is the default source and renewable energy is the back up. So what we are encouraging architects to do is to design houses with alternative energy as the default source of energy for the house and KPLC as back up.” Sewe said that alternative energy has always been viewed as expensive and therefore not appropriate for use as a default source of power. “This is one of the biggest failures in the energy debate and it is being perpetrated by big oil companies and other energy producers to keep alternative energy research and development low. If you look at the bigger picture, alternative energy is a cheaper convectional energy source in the long-run and is also sustainable and benign to the environment.” Sewe encouraged the use of renewable energy to be used in all homes as this would contribute positively in the fight against Global warming and general climate change shifts which have seen an escalation in weather tragedies all over the World. “As Fast Green Energy we want to change the current energy module which is unsustainable, expensive, and destructive to the environment,” he concluded.  Fast Green Energy was launched in early 2010 with the objective of putting the alternative energy debate in front of every policy maker.