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Coast to get cheap electricity

A Kenya Power personnel at work 

The use of costly diesel-fired generators at the Coast will drop substantially following the commissioning of a transmission line to access cheap power produced at the Olkaria geothermal fields in Naivasha.

Reduced reliance on thermal power plants is expected to cut the fuel cost charge component in the electricity bill.

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