Kenya has linked roughly 8.6 million households to electrical energy as of December 2021, up from 7.3 million in January 2020, the vitality regulator mentioned on Thursday.
Daniel Kiptoo, director common, Power and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) informed journalists that Kenya is the one nation in East Africa with electrical energy entry to over 75 % of her inhabitants.
“The elevated entry to electrical energy is an enormous enhance in direction of the attainment of the nation’s nationwide growth blueprint imaginative and prescient 2030 which seeks to rework Kenya right into a newly industrialising, middle-income nation by the 12 months 2030,” Kiptoo mentioned within the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, in the course of the launch of the 2021 Power and Petroleum Statistics Report.
Kiptoo mentioned the nation’s complete put in electrical energy capability within the nation, together with off-grid energy, was 2,990 MW as of the tip of 2021.
Based on the vitality regulator, Kenya’s vitality combine consists of hydro at 838 MW, geothermal at 863 MW, wind energy at 437 MW, photo voltaic at 173 MW, thermal at 677 MW whereas biomass is at 2 %.
Kiptoo noticed that bulk of electrical energy was generated from renewable sources, making Kenya a worldwide chief in renewable vitality.
He noticed that the state-owned Kenya Electrical energy Producing Firm (KenGen) is the county’s largest energy producer accounting for 62.98 % of the nation’s efficient era capability adopted by Unbiased Energy Producers (IPPs) who account for 35.95 %.
The vitality regulator famous that off-grid era underneath the agricultural electrification program accounts for the remaining 1.07 %.