The drop in the costly thermal power coincided with a jump in electricity imports.
By
John Mutua
Business Reporter
Nation Media Group
Kenya has reduced expensive thermal power on the national grid to avoid burdening consumers with steep electricity prices even as fears deepen over Kenya Power’s ability to meet a fast-rising demand.
Kenya’s peak demand (highest point of electricity usage) currently stands at 2,439.06 megawatts (MW) recorded on December 4, 2025.
The latest figures show Kenya consumed 623.4 million more units of electricity in the first quarter of 2026 than it did during…
Kenya’s electricity demand has been rising steadily in recent months, but local generation capacity remains constrained.
The government has yielded to public pressure and directed Kenya Power to withdraw an application it had made that would have…
Electricity prices have dropped in the past 12 months, a momentum that the government is keen to sustain.
The growing role of Ethiopian electricity highlights Kenya's increasing reliance on regional power markets as rising demand…
