“The paper is organized as follows. After the introductory note, section two will briefly outline some salient features of the Kenyan and Sudanese economies, particularly their energy structure. The third section will briefly review the literature related to energy
consumption and economic growth. Section four will examine the methodology to be used to assess the contribution of energy consumption to economic performance. The fifth section will Present and analyze the results of the study and infer its implications for future collaboration in general and infrastructure linkages in particular. “