Kenya Power needs to drop either Kenya or Power from its name:

Kenya- Its an embarassment to our country, sending bills on time but most of the times there is no power. Now everybody has installed a back up generator.

Power - they are now selling darkness. Thats what i get more than 50% 8f the time.

We cannot achieve 2030 with companies like KPLC. After being there for 100 years it's shocking that they should still can't perform the one and only duty they are tasked with. We have Counties talking of 24hrs economies yet KPLC can't provide electricity for more than 1 hour a day.

History and Milestones

1875: Seyyied Bargash, the Sultan of Zanzibar, acquires a generator to light his palace and nearby streets.

1908: Harrali Esmailjee Jeevanjee, a wealthy merchant in Mombasa, acquires the generator and transfers it to the Mombasa Electric Power and Lighting Company.

1908: Around the same time, an engineer, Mr Clement Hertzel, is granted the exclusive right to supply electricity to the then district and town of Nairobi. This leads to the formation of the Nairobi Power and Lighting Syndicate.

1922: The two utilities in Nairobi and Mombasa are merged under a new company incorporated as the East African Power and Lighting Company (EAP&L).

1932: EAP&L acquires a controlling interest in the Tanganyika Electricity Supply Company Limited (TANESCO).

1936: EAP&L obtains generating and distribution licenses for Uganda, thereby entrenching its presence in the East African region.

1948: The Uganda Electricity Board (UEB) is established by the Ugandan Government to take over distribution of electricity in the country.

1954: The Kenya Power Company (KPC) is created - to be managed by EAP&L - for the purpose of transmitting power from Uganda through the Tororo-Juja line.

1964: EAP&L sells its majority stockholding in TANESCO to the Government of Tanzania.

1983: With its operations confined only to Kenya, EAP&L is renamed The Kenya Power and Lighting Company Limited (KPLC).

1997: The functions of generation are split from transmission and distribution. The Kenya Power Company, which has been under the management of KPLC since 1954, becomes a separate entity responsible for public-funded power generation projects.

1998: The Kenya Power Company is re-launched as the Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen).

2004: The Energy Sector Recovery Project (ESRP) is started to rehabilitate and reinforce the transmission and distribution network in order to improve the quality and reliability of supply, reduce system losses and increase access to electricity.

2007: Rural Electrification Authority (REA) is established to speed up the implementation pace of the rural electrification programme.

2008: Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (KETRACO) is incorporated by the government to accelerate transmission infrastructure development.

2008: The government incorporates the Geothermal Development Company tasked with developing steam fields to reduce upstream power development risks so as to promote rapid development of geothermal electric power.

2011: The Kenya Power and Lighting Company rebrands to Kenya Power.

You want to finis some people?

There's a reason why you don't let engineers become CEOs of a service providing companies mainly because you don't want them to open their mouths.

How can the KPLC CEO call a media conference to apologize for offering bad service? You never do that especially not for a company that has been in existence for decades! You explain the situation and remedy then give guarantees. Period. These guys need to hire a PR expert!




This guy is a crook even in Jersey!

With all this rain and water going to waste;there is need to build a high grand falls dam with a capacity to generate about 1 Gigawatt of electricity.
KENGEN is reporting that its hydro dams are full and the excess water could have been channelled to the high grand falls dam.Energy supply could be a thing of the past and now we could be thinking of distribution.

It's never safe investing in Parastatals.

yes he has...

@murchr;The money being spent to construct the Olkaria I and IV to generate 280 MW is enough to construct the Grand Falls Dam with a capacity to generate about 1200MW.
Since 2010 we have been having heavy rains and the water has been going to waste.
The revenue generated from this power stations could then have been used to fund the geothermal power.The dam could also have a reservoir that can last a year plus.
Hydro power is the cheapest source of power and now we could be enjoying cheaper electicity tariffs and there would have been no need of raising the tariffs.
Ethiopia suffered the worst drought in the world in 1984 but has that stopped them from constructing hydro power dams.
The issue of geothermal energy was an avenue of some people to enrich themselves because of the huge capital cost involved otherwise why was Ahmed Abednassir on Eddy Njoroge's case concerning these projects that some people were enriching themselves.

A lesson for me.

Populism not sense/logic will always won out. Sigh, I shall bail out ASAP. Where's @thedeal who prefers Umeme to KPLC... Careful what happened to us in KPLC doesn't happen to you in Umeme.

Invest in firms that don't catch the populist eye. Or pay a super discount. Of course, banks will be exempt when you consider who owns CBA.