Kenya Power plans on cutting the cost of electricity bills in the country by replacing its thermal power stations with solar and wind electricity generating machines. This will see the electricity distribution company switch from fuel-powered engines. The company had on January 2, said that the move will reduce the effect of fuel on power […]
Is Kenya Power Blocking Solar Use To Aid Its Ailing Business?
Barely a week after Kenya’s electricity distributor, Kenya Power, appeared to have raised alarm over a spike in the rate at which some of its biggest customers are switching to solar, it seems the plan is to now make solar harder. As it is, the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (Epra) has proposed a raft […]
Shift to solar use wake-up call for Kenya Power
Kenya Power has recorded a massive drop in its revenues. This comes after most of its customers and major consumers of power shifted to solar energy in a bid to cut costs. This was not entirely unexpected. Kenya Power has failed to keep pace with the rate of modernisation and the needs of its customers. […]
Energy boss must wake up Kenya Power
That Kenya Power is haemorrhaging is no secret. Since January this year, every headline in the local newspapers about the company has tended to present a different expressive word of a slowly collapsing giant. Its failure will certainly undermine the country’s competitiveness. As a result, industrialists are quietly relocating to neighbouring countries and exporting their […]