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Kenya Power losing billions from system inefficiency

Workers from Kenya Power. [Denish Ochieng/Standard]

Kenya Power is losing billions of shillings for keeping low electricity consumers on the grid as transmission costs mount.

Millions of customers enlisted under the Last Mile Connectivity Project are weighing down the power distributor as the amount of electricity lost during transmission from generation plants to consumers continues to rise.

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