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Kenya has the fourth-highest electricity access rate in sub-Saharan Africa.

Funding will help government reinforce national electricity grid, meaning more reliable power supply for Kenyans.

Kenya has risen ahead of several developed countries in the latest ranking

The order came days after KPLC pumped Ksh27 billion towards connecting more homes to the grid.

With a budget cost of Sh26.8 billion, the phase seeks benefit an additional 280,473 households across 32 targeted counties.

Shocking details of a report by a special task force lifts the lid on a deliberate attempt by officials to hide crucial information on the true pictur

Costly electricity bars Kenya from becoming energy-secure country Summary Expensive pricing has hit Kenya’s transition into an energy-secure country over the past decade, a new index shows, despite improvements in customer connections, uptake of renewable energy and high capital investment. The Energy Transition Index for 2021 by the World Economic Forum (WEF) says though Kenya is among developing nations that had steadily increased electricity access over the review period, its pricing remai...

THE STANDARD By Allan Mungai | January 8th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 Majority Leader Amos Kimunya addresses a past press conference in Karen Nairobi. [File, David Njaaga, Standard] A senior member of the Jubilee Party has blamed Kenya’s current debt burden on what he calls Jubilee administration’s populist projects started between 2013 and 2017. National Assembly Majority Leader Amos Kimunya said the projects are undertaken by the government in President Uhuru Kenyatta’s first term, a...