Kenya Power To Raise Electricity Tariffs By 117%

By Juma / Published January 26, 2023 | 9:32 am

KEY POINTS

Kenya Power has proposed the introduction of a new tariff of 14 shillings ($0.11) per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for customers who use less than 30 units of power monthly. It also wants to introduce a tariff of 21.68 shillings ($0.17) per kWh for those who use more than 30 units monthly.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

In October last year, Kenya Power presented to EPRA the request to review tariffs upwards and sustain them in place for the next three years from April 1, 2023. With the electricity tariffs up by 117 percent, Kenyans will simply have to pay through the nose for tokens.

Electricity cost for millions of hustlers in Kenya is likely to go up by at least 117 percent if Kenya Power and Lighting Company requests, now before the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) will be accepted and implemented.

Currently, if you take 400 shillings to purchase tokens from Kenya Power and Lighting Company before anything else can happen, 46.58 shillings will be deducted as Value Added Tax (VAT), 138.88 shillings will be taken away as Fuel Energy Charge, 40.7 shillings as Forex Charge, 0.58 shillings as EPRA Charge, 0.22 and 7.56 shillings as WRA Charge and REP Charge respectively. 13.16 shillings will be taken as Inflation Adjustment.

In the end, you will be left with 151.32 shillings for tokens.

In the current tariff that was approved in November 2018 – which was temporarily cut by Epra in January last year – customers who use less than 100 units per month pay KSh10 ($0.081)per kWh and those who use more than that amount pay KSh15.8 ($0.13) per unit.

Kenyans who sang that “Freedom is Coming” with the election of President Uhuru Kenyatta must now be wondering whether they elected Zakayo Mtoza Ushuru or the “compassionate Hustler Prophet” who had been sent to rescue them.

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