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Like most of sub-Saharan African countries, Kenya’s electrification is currently lagging behind global averages. More than half of its population is outside the national power grid. At the same time, Kenya’s installed electricity capacity has risen from 1,800MW in 2013 to 2,333MW last year.
This is, however, behind the Government’s planned schedule of building 5,000MW of installed capacity by 2017. Business Beat sat down with the Kenya Electricity Transmission Limited (Ketraco) CEO Fernandes Barasa to discuss the developments in the country’s power sector, the planned projects and road-map to close the country’s electricity supply gap.
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