Shift to cooking gas widens as households tap cheaper supplies

More households in Kenya are increasingly using cooking gas, buoyed by the lower cost of the fuel following recent tax incentives by the government.

Data from the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (Epra) shows that the uptake of cooking gas in Kenyan homes rose by 14.1 percent to 443,932.46 tonnes in the year ended June 2025 from 388,970 tonnes posted in the previous year.