I have a short-backed gelding that used to carry 200 lb of rider plus 40 lb of saddle for 8-12 hours at a time (30%). He weighs around 800-830, so that would be 29% or higher. I weigh 175, and he has no trouble with me - but his back is very short. My mare is around 880, so I'm at 24% with her.
Kenya to generate over half of its electricity through solar power by 2016. Masinga hydroelectric power plant. Kenya gets most of its power from hydroelectricity, but there are hopes solar will contribute more. Kenya to generate over half of its electricity through solar power by 2016. Kenya has identified nine sites to build solar power plants that could provide more than half the country's electricity by 2016. Construction of the plants, expected to cost $1.2bn (Â£73m), is set to begin this year and initial design stages are almost complete.
The installed capacity in Uganda is about 300 MW, over 98 percent of electricity is generated by the hydroelectric plant at Owen Falls (the 180 MW Nalubaale station and the 200 MW Kiira station with five 40 MW units of which three have been installed) on the Victoria Nile. power line would start from Kikorongo to Mpondwe on the DR Congo border and another one would begin from Kiburara to Kisinga and other mountainous sub-counties. The sh2.6b will be 50% of the costs of the power project. Uganda's Kanungu district will get a 150-kilometre power line worth Shs2.6 billion, in May 2005.