KenGen is continuing its push on business strategy, emphasising its diversification strategy and is now inaugurating a R&D center to support those efforts. Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC (KenGen) has kicked-off the construction of a Research and Development (R&D) Centre at Tana [hydropower] Power Station located in Muranga County, in a move to boost innovation […]
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KenGen Sets Up R&D Station at Tana Power Station, A First By a Public Sector Entity
KenGen Managing Director and CEO, Mrs. Rebecca Miano being assisted by the Project Site Engineer, Duncan Muchendu and the project implementation team in laying the cornerstone of the State-of-the-Art Research and Development Centre in Tana Station. The facility seeks to boost innovation in the company. Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC (KenGen) has launched the construction […]
Kenya cancels power purchase negotiations, replaces energy minister
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta speaks during a joint statement with Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan at the State House, in Nairobi, Kenya, May 4, 2021. REUTERS/Baz Ratner NAIROBI, Sept 29 (Reuters) – Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has ordered the cancellation of all ongoing and incomplete power purchase agreements being negotiated with the state distributor Kenya […]
Kenya: Taskforce recommends changes to electricity system
Featured image: 123rf.com As Kenya cancelled Power Purchase Agreements and saw the axing of its energy minister, a Kenyan Presidential Taskforce on Review of Power Purchase Agreement recommended the country introduce measures to reduce the cost of electricity by a third within four months. Proposed interventions could mean a consumer who previously spent Ksh.500 a […]
Energy experts call for climate-smart power projects in east Africa
East African countries must make their renewable energy projects climate-smart for sustainable development, experts said on Wednesday. Willis Ochieng, chief energy planner at the Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen), said the production of energy from renewable sources is increasingly being affected by climate change. Thus countries must invest more for sustainable electricity production. “Wind, solar […]
Ngumi Report can make Kenya greener
A prepaid Kenya Power customer keys in token numbers in Loresho, Nairobi county, April 25, 2018. President Kenyatta has just received the report of a 15-member task force led by John Ngumi to review Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) entered into by Kenya Power. In 2020 Kenya Power made a Sh7 billion loss, partly because of […]
Probe team indicts IPPs over high cost of power in Kenya
A customer in Loresho, Nairobi, keys in tokens in her meter box on April 25, 2018. /ENOS TECHE Independent Power Producers will have to renegotiate their deals with Kenya Power to bring down the cost of electricity, President Uhuru Kenyatta said yesterday. This is expected to bring down the cost of electricity by Sh8 per […]
Electricity bills in Kenya to go down by 33pc from December
A Kenya Power employee inspects a meter box at an apartment building in a Nairobi residential area last year during a raid on illegal power connections. PHOTO | FILE The reduction in consumer tariffs from an average of Ksh24 ($0.21) per kilowatt hour to Ksh16 ($0.14) per kilowatt hour is part of the recommendations by […]
Could PPA task force report seed true power sector reform?
A month ago, we were inundated with screaming headlines on Kenya Power in our press. One daily carried these three leaders on consecutive days. “How Kenya Power plunged into Sh120 billion in debt”. “Kenya Power loses Sh18 billion yearly in power theft”. “Costly power deals push cost up by 30 per cent”. Yes, 30 per […]
KenGen launches state-of-the-art research and development centre
Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC (KenGen) has kicked-off the construction of a Research and Development (R&D) Centre at Tana Power Station located in Murang’a County, in a move to boost innovation in the company. The construction of the R&D Centre which will also double up as an archive for the Company is expected to take […]