Revealed: How power firms rob consumers blind in fuel tender scam

Kenya Power's prepaid meters. [File, Standard]

Electricity consumers have over the years been overbilled owing to malpractices in the procurement of heavy fuel oil that thermal power producers use to generate electricity.

A forensic audit on the procurement of heavy fuel oil (HFO) by the thermal Independent Power Producers (IPPs) by the Auditor General shows that consumers paid billions of shillings over and above what they should have paid in compensating the power producers for what they used in acquiring the fuel.