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shonagal
#1 Posted : Saturday, October 29, 2011 6:46:38 PM
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KENYA POWER AND LIGHTING COMPANY TURNING OUT TO BE A USELESS COMPANY

The whole of this week power has been on and off where i live and sometimes going off for 3/4 of the day.They are becoming so unreliable i thought they would never become like the other useless and unreliable company known as NAIROBI WATER COMPANY.
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mlennyma
#2 Posted : Saturday, October 29, 2011 6:52:02 PM
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Just learn to live with them coz there is no option for the next 50yrs.
"Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning."
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josiah33
#3 Posted : Saturday, October 29, 2011 8:14:38 PM
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And we are dreaming of vision 2030 and a nairobi metropolis when they can't even provide decent power now.
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shonagal
#4 Posted : Sunday, October 30, 2011 6:43:30 AM
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there is no warning at all, power just goes off. i think there should be some law to compell them to give reliable electricity and compensate for lost business or damaged appliances if the reason they are going on and off without warning is not satisfactory. we need to demand for better services from kplc and not just learning to live with that as someone puts it, afterall they are so fast at disconnecting you if you don't pay the bill.
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Dash
#5 Posted : Sunday, October 30, 2011 8:08:02 AM
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@Shonagal, I agree with you 100%. If we all make a collective noise eventually something has got to give. But alas, many do have the attitude of "just live with it" hence there is no "collectiveness" per se.
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shonagal
#6 Posted : Sunday, October 30, 2011 9:19:28 AM
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@Dash yes, that's the spirit. we need to demand for our money's worth.
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madammary
#7 Posted : Sunday, October 30, 2011 9:37:26 AM
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i think that if we could make some small steps to ensure efficiency and we become serious about provision of reliable electricity, then we could well dream on about vision 2030.it really beats me how electricity could be on and off(your bulb at home almost does what disco lights do) for a whole 4 days and there is not even an explanation from the power company. kenya power company is actually making our lives difficult and costly too.
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josiah33
#8 Posted : Sunday, October 30, 2011 10:01:21 AM
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What are our consumer rights here? Some countries have them.
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madammary
#9 Posted : Sunday, October 30, 2011 10:37:56 AM
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I wish what happened to the postal corporation of kenya would happen to kenya power, they are so fast now when giving you a p.o.box number after having realised they are soon going to be irrelevant with the advent of email etc.
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josiah33
#10 Posted : Sunday, October 30, 2011 12:24:23 PM
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check the link to see what happens in other places. http://www.ewov.com.au/G...sofprofitfromanout1.aspx
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Chanaleze
#11 Posted : Wednesday, November 02, 2011 10:16:24 AM
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where de a z a monopoly de z no development. Thy r relaxd coz we wil complain but we have no choice 2 back 2 em..... but we av options tht life z offern us though thy r high pricely but shuts down the problem once 4 eva. n tht d natural resources e.g solar, biogas n so on!
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josiah33
#12 Posted : Wednesday, November 02, 2011 9:05:36 PM
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@chanaleze maybe if we could find some way of powering our own homes we would end this monopoly without needing a second power distributor to do that for us.
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Rollout
#13 Posted : Wednesday, November 02, 2011 9:28:45 PM
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.... Kenya need electricity market where electricity trading is possible since there is no enough power for consumers, consumers should be allowed to sell their power if they do not need it, eg large office buildings with no overnight staff should be able to sell their power from say 8pm to 7 am, imagine if that was to be happen..... but either way, there need to be some smart people to do it......
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shonagal
#14 Posted : Wednesday, November 02, 2011 9:49:34 PM
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but how will that help with regard to power flactuations and outages? it would still be the same unreliable power the consumers would be selling in this electricity market.
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Rollout
#15 Posted : Wednesday, November 02, 2011 10:20:24 PM
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shonagal wrote:
but how will that help with regard to power flactuations and outages? it would still be the same unreliable power the consumers would be selling in this electricity market.


It won't obviously solve the problem since the quantity is tha problem but it will enable those consumers with increasing marginal utility to access power and those with diminishing marginal utility to be forced to sell energy or pay more for additional marginal consumption.
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josiah33
#16 Posted : Thursday, November 03, 2011 7:04:26 AM
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@rollout seems like a good idea. Take power to where it's needed most at any given time.
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Njunge
#17 Posted : Monday, April 16, 2018 10:45:00 AM
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Paid for power token for my rural folks this weekend and so did my other two siblings. Tokens are yet to be availed more than 24 hours later (Got a message from VENDIT that they were experiencing delays and that is all. Their customer care is rubbish). Question is, if the folks are disconnected, will they charge them for re-connection even though it's not their fault? KP is truly shit companySad Sad .
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Intelligentsia
#18 Posted : Monday, April 16, 2018 10:58:18 AM
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Same shiet happened to me jana - you purchase tokens at 7.45am unapata some few minutes to midnight.
Something very wrong with this shithole company - and why do they keep referring customers to purchase tokens from Vendit and somether company's paybill yet they have never done a proper public introduction to these mysterious companies?
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Njunge
#19 Posted : Monday, April 16, 2018 11:16:16 AM
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Intelligentsia wrote:
Same shiet happened to me jana - you purchase tokens at 7.45am unapata some few minutes to midnight.
Something very wrong with this shithole company - and why do they keep referring customers to purchase tokens from Vendit and somether company's paybill yet they have never done a proper public introduction to these mysterious companies?


So annoying. At least you were luckySad
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kayhara
#20 Posted : Monday, April 16, 2018 11:30:11 AM
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Kenya power..NKT if you are on tokens you get screwed if you are on the old meter there is a chance you will get a 2 million bob bill, I had to kopa tokens from PAWA which amazingly worked even though I had bought tokens from them that I have not received, wizi tu.
To Each His Own
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