- Kenya attains over 90% renewable energy power generation in the energy mix.
- 876,961 Kenyan households were connected to the grid by May 2021.
Kenya’s Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority has revealed that energy access has now attained a percentage rate of 76.49. This corresponds to an energy access rate of 8.2 million consumers within the economy. Furthermore, the body – EPRA – has stated that this energy access rate is the highest amongst East-African countries.
Uganda, a fellow East-African country, only has a 24% energy access rate for its 40million residents as of January 2021. Another East African Country, Tanzania, has just set a target of reaching a 75% connectivity rate by 2033, which is twofold compared to its current energy access rate. EPRA further highlighted how the development is a great achievement in the country’s plans of becoming a newly industrialising, middle-income economy according to its Vision 2030 plans.
The report reveals 876 961 Kenyan homes, as of May 2021, were connected to the grid. A very important fact from the report is that over 90% of the electricity generated in the country were sourced from renewable energy, and just 6.5% came from thermal sources.
General Daniel Kiptoo, EPRA’s director, further mentioned, “Kenya’s energy sector has experienced tremendous growth and development since independence with paradigm shifts occurring over time in the regulations and structures of utilities in both the electricity and petroleum sub-sectors.”