State lifts curbs on access to special night electricity prices for factories

Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority director-general Daniel Kiptoo.

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The State has scrapped consumption limits that industrialists must attain to qualify for preferential electricity prices during nighttime, yielding to pressure from manufacturers.

Daniel Kiptoo, Director General of the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (Epra) said the government has agreed to the proposal to lift curbs on consumption thresholds and is exploring ways of ensuring that the move does not plunge Kenya Power into losses estimated at Sh25 billion.

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