**2.8. Geothermal**

The country is endowed with a huge geothermal potential, which has not yet exploited [13]. Geothermal power is a reliable, low-cost, environmental friendly, alternative energy supply, indigenous, renewable energy source and suitable for electricity generation. Estimations by analogue method [14] show that the geothermal potential in the country is about 650 MW of which most of the prospects are located within the East African Rift Valley system. Geother‐ mal resource exploitation is a capital intensive investment; hence, private investment is not expected to come in before obtaining detail information on the resources, particularly on their economic viability as potential geothermal energy resource. It is anticipated that the country in order to move from surface assessments to further detailed investigation, public and donor fund will be required.

Other energy sources are petroleum, which makes up 8 percent of total primary energy con‐ sumption, natural gas 2.4 percent, and hydropower 1.2 percent. About 6.6 percent of pri‐ mary energy needs to be imported, primarily from Uganda (8 MW) and Zambia (5 MW) [15]
