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Electricity overtakes milk, eggs as top import from Uganda
Power demand peaked at 2,439.06megawatt (MW) in early December 2025, dwarfing the marginal growth in local production recorded over the past seven years.
Electricity is now among Kenya’s top imports from Uganda, overtaking traditional goods such as milk, eggs, grains and timber, by value and underscoring a trend where power demand is rising faster than domestic generation.
Data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) show that Kenya imported electricity worth Sh978.3 million in the third quarter of 2025, up from Sh666.3 million in the same quarter a year earlier.
