Kenya Power
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Kenya’s Electricity Generation Rises Slightly as Peak Demand and Imports Keep the Grid Tight
The increase shows up quietly in the data, without the kind of inflection that demands immediate explanation. Between July and…
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Kenya Power Rolls Out New OCR Meter Reading Technology
Kenya has officially begun a nationwide roll-out of a new power meter reading technology, Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The technology,…
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Rural Electrification Debt Has Landed on the Table Again and This Time Consumers Are in the Crossfire
Kenya’s electricity debate has entered a difficult phase. A parliamentary plan would shift long-standing rural electrification expenses to households, placing…
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Kenya Rushes to Revive Dormant Power Deals as the Grid Edges Toward Its Breaking Point
The Energy and Petroleum ministry says talks with 54 independent power producers are moving again, although each project sits at…
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Lawmakers Blink First in Kenya’s Tug-of-War Over Power Supply
Kenya’s National Assembly has voted to lift the seven-year freeze on new power purchase agreements, ending one of the most…
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The Return of Load-Shedding Reveals a Power System That’s Been Running on Borrowed Time
President William Ruto’s recent admission that Kenya will ration electricity between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. has forced a reckoning.…
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Kenya’s Power Producers Face Stiff Fines for Failing to File Outage Plans
Kenya’s electricity sector is on the verge of a significant regulatory shift. Power producers will soon be required to submit…
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The Hidden Logic Behind Kenya Power Tariff Rates and Why Your Tokens Are Disappearing
You load the usual Ksh 500 on your meter. A few seconds later, the token arrives—and it’s less than you…
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Kenya’s EV Charging Infrastructure: 45 New Chargers Across 6 Counties—What It Means for E-Mobility
Kenya is charging ahead in spearheading sustainable transportation with 45 new locations for electric vehicle (EV) charging laid out in…
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Kenya’s Power Grid Faces Growing Pressure as Electricity Demand Surges
Fast urbanization, industrial growth, and growing acceptance of electrically powered options are pushing Kenya’s electricity demand to unprecedented levels. In…
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Kenya Power Token Generation System Suffers an Outage
Kenyans across different parts of the country are facing significant difficulties in obtaining power tokens following a widespread outage with…
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Kenya Power Says 2 Million Out of 7.4 Million Prepaid Meters Updated
Kenya Power Prepaid Meters: Kenya Power has announced that a total of 2 million prepaid (token) meters have been updated…
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How to update your Kenya Power prepaid meter tokens
All customers on Kenya Power’s prepaid meters (token meters) will now be required to update their meters to enable them…
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Kenya Power prepaid token system to be unavailable from Sunday
The Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) has announced that its prepaid token system will be unavailable from Sunday 2nd…
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Kenya setting the pace in EV adoption in Africa
Electric Vehicles (EV) are gaining momentum in Kenya thanks to the government’s National Electric Mobility Plan, which focuses on creating…
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Paying for your electricity bills via Airtel Money will now attract zero transaction fees
Customers paying for their electricity bills via Airtel Money will be charged zero transaction fees thanks to a new partnership…
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Kenya Power pilots smart poles for its home internet supply business
Kenya Power has been mooting the idea of providing fixed internet for some time now. As of last year, the…
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Kenya Power to convert its 2,000 vehicles to electric
Kenya Power has announced plans to convert its entire fleet of 2,000 fossil fuel-powered vehicles to electric in the next…
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Kenya power to start construction of charging hubs for electric vehicles
Kenya Power has announced plans to is to start the construction of electric charging centres for electric vehicles in the…
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Kenya Power to officially start offering home internet from 2023
Kenya Power will officially start offering internet services from next year, in a move expected to sparkle fresh price wars…
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How to Pay for Your Electricity Bill using Bonga Points
Safaricom and KPLC have announced a partnership to allow the telco’s customers –both prepaid and postpaid– to pay for electricity…
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You Can Now Pay for Electricity Bills Using Safaricom’s Bonga Points
Safaricom customers can now pay for their power bills using the company’s Bonga points. “We have entered into a partnership…
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EADC Launches new Power Plant to push it up the ‘green’ ladder as a green data center
The East Africa Data Centre (EADC) has launched a new dedicated $5m Kenya Power substation in Nairobi. This new station…
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Kenyan Power and Safaricom sign MoU to provide broadband Internet to more Kenyans
Kenya Power, through its subsidiary Kenya Power International has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with telecom service provider Safaricom to…
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Kenya Power Adopts IBM Real Time Data Solutions to help improve its business performance
In a move aimed at trying to bring down the cost of electricity in Kenya and also enhance the cost…
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