The Scaling-up Renewable Energy Program (SREP) for low income
countries was established within the Strategic Climate Fund. Its
principal objective is to help low income countries make a
transformational change to low carbon administered by the World
Bank energy pathways by optimally exploiting their renewable
energy potential to offset fossil-based energy supply. SREP
helps capture other co-benefits such as reduced local air
pollution, improved climate resilience and the diffusion of low
carbon technologies and industries, while reducing greenhouse
gas emissions.7 The SREP co-finances multilateral development
bank (MDB) investments, with the aim of shifting generation of
energy to renewables in place of conventional fuels such as oil
and coal. Kenya is one of the six Pilot Countries selected to
benefit from SREP. The SREP program will support Kenya’s
initiatives towards achieving a transformational change that
will lead the country towards a low greenhouse gas (GHG)
emission development pathway by harnessing