Kenya Power asks State to chip in to cushion consumers from high bills

Kenya Power Acting Managing Director Kenneth Tarus with Kenya Association of Manufacturers Chief Executive Phyllis Wakiaga when he met manufacturers in Nairobi. (Photo: Wilberforce Okwiri/Standard)

Kenya Power wants the Government to pay for the extra cost of generating electricity from the expensive diesel-fired thermal generators to cushion consumers from higher bills.

Dry weather conditions have seen the hydroelectric component of Kenya Power’s energy mix halve in two months and subsequently the amount of thermal power double.