Contracts to link 650,000 homes to electricity signed

Kenya Power CEO Ken Tarus and African Development Bank official Gabriel Negatu sign a funding deal on November 9. photo | DIANA NGILA

Nearly 650,000 households will be connected to electricity after Kenya Power #ticker:KPLC awarded contracts to construct new power lines and transformers into villages at a cost of Sh30 billion.

Kenya Power on Thursday launched the second phase of the government’s mass connectivity project introduced in 2015 where homes are connected at a subsidised fee of Sh15,000, about half the previous cost.

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