Nairobi, May 11 -- For over six decades, Kenya's pursuit of prosperity has been defined by massive infrastructure. We have laid the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) from Mombasa to Nairobi and look forward to its extension to Busia.

We have built the Nairobi Expressway and are now on to dualing the Nairobi - Mau Summit carriageway.

That comes after the dualing of the Nairobi-Nyeri highway that has greatly eased transport in the Mt Kenya region. The government has great interest in transforming the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport into a regional air transport hub. Yet, while these projects move our people and goods, they are consumers of energy, not the source of it.

As we stand at the threshold of a new industrial dawn, it is my firm b...