Electricity generation increases 6pc in first-half as prices drop

A Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Limited (Ketraco) substation. 

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Electricity generation increased by 5.8 percent in the first six months of 2024 as consumers bought more units, buoyed by lower prices for four consecutive months.

Data from the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (Epra) shows that the country’s power generators produced 7,201,974,843 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity between January and June.

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