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Kenya Power to import 340,000 meters for new grid connections

Electric power meter measuring power usage. [Getty Images]

Kenya Power is eyeing a shipment of over 300,000 electricity meters early next year to resume stalled power connections around the country.

The lack of meters could derail the new government's plan to ramp up electricity supply as part of President William Ruto's new administration's campaign manifesto to connect households and businesses to power.

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