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Kenya Power and Lighting Company's technical teams at KPLC Huruma Sub-station, Nairobi. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]
The amount of money Kenya Power is unable to collect from its customers grew substantially last year as defaults on payment of bills grew owing to difficulties caused by the Covid-19 Pandemic.
The firm said the value of electricity sold but yet to be paid for had increased 16 per cent to Sh27.4 billion as of June 2020 from 23.6 billion in 2019, which played a part in plunging the company into losses.
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