Kenya knocks off 100m units of costly power in eight months

A Geothermal development Company steam well in Menengai ,Nakuru county. The company has laid ground for independent power producers to begin generation of 105 mega watts from the 11 steam wells.PHOTO:KIPSANG JOSEPH

The country knocked off 100 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of expensive thermal energy from the national grid in the first eight months of the year.

The latest data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) shows the electricity generated from thermal sources had dropped by 10 per cent to 855.5 million kWh by August this year. Over a similar period last year, thermal sources generated 951.9 million kWh.