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Kenya and Senegal have emerged as Africa’s top energy regulators, tying for first place in the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) 2024 Electricity Regulatory Index (ERI) with a remarkable score of 0.892 – a signal achievement in a continent-wide push for better energy governance, climate resilience, and sustainable development.

KenGen, Kenya’s leading power producer and the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) recently reached a deal to put up the country’s first waste-to-energy utility scale power plant in the city. The…

Kenya’s leading energy producer KenGen is set to earn about USD 1,100,960 (about Ks 118million) in the next seven years from the Olkaria II Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Project. This…

Cash-flow woes have pushed Kenya’s monopoly electricity retailer back to the drawing board, emerging with a strategy it hopes to boost its dimming fortunes. Kenya Power is moving to decentralise…

Recent news coming from Kenya Power has been generating more heat than light and the company risks being swallowed whole by the ensuing financial storm. The deteriorating financial health of…

Kenya constructed its first geothermal plant in 1981, the Olkaria 1. The East African nation has since built a fleet of other geothermal plants in Rift Valley steam fields, emerging…

Thermal power plants (heavy fuel oil/diesel/kerosene generators) in Kenya charge the highest in excess of $0.20 per unit of electricity produced and injected into the national grid. This is four…

Press Release NAIROBI, KENYA, Thursday June 25th, 2020: Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC (KenGen) has commenced construction of its first-ever Liquid Drilling Detergent Manufacturing Factory, at an estimated investment cost of…

Kenya has allocated $93 million (Sh9.3 billion) for development of geothermal energy in the 2020/21 financial year starting next month. Treasury minister Ukur Yatani announced the allocation in his budget…

Government-owned power producer KenGen is for the first time teaming up with private investors to develop power plants, starting with a 140MW geothermal facility. The company has shortlisted bidders to…