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How electricity firm overpaid independent power producers

KenGen sign at the Stima Plaza, Ngara, Nairobi. January 17, 2023. [Elvis Ogina,Standard]

The Auditor General has questioned the difference in the price that Kenya Power pays for electricity bought from KenGen compared to what it pays the independent power producers (IPPs).

The disparity is such that while KenGen supplied nearly two thirds - 63 per cent - of electricity consumed over the year to June 2022, it pocketed just 41 per cent of the total amount that Kenya Power paid to power generators.

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