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Vendors want state to end Kenya Power monopoly on smart meters

A smart metre installed in Saum Charo's house in Tudor in Mombasa county. [File, Standard]

Independent electricity vendors now want the government to end the monopoly of smart meters buying by Kenya Power.

Members of the Africa Smart Metres Association Secretary General James Ngomeli told Senate Energy Committee in Nairobi Tuesday that the monopoly of meter buying by KPLC should be stopped and the money instead used to drive the Smart Grid solutions.

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