Reducing electricity costs becoming a daunting task

Kenya Power workers during the launch of the Live-Line maintenance programme on June 8. It will take longer to dilute high thermal generation cost if geothermal is slow. PHOTO | FILE

Last week, four news items related to power supply appeared in the media. The Cabinet Secretary for Energy commissioned a committee to review power purchase agreements (PPAs) mainly signed with thermal generators.

The objective is to seek opportunities to deliver lower electricity costs. Then we heard the Cabinet Secretary for Industrialisation stating that industrial development in Kenya is conditional on low energy cost inputs.

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