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Kenya Electricity Generating Company

Kenya Electricity Generating Company

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Sep 4, 2026

Irene AbagiGUEST
18:17
So you're connecting into KPLC and you're pulling that out.
Irene AbagiGUEST
18:20
And KPLC is buying electricity that is being generated by KenGen, right? So outside of that, if they're not producing enough, then you can get this independent power producers who are, think of them as like small, small, small, small, small, small version of KPLC, of Kenjen.
Irene AbagiGUEST
18:36
So they are producing electricity, which they could be doing it either through like wind or solar or, you know, something else.
Irene AbagiGUEST
18:44
And then they produce that energy and then now they sell it also to KPLC who has the... who has a mandate to distribute it to and connect it to others or in some communities right if you're like far out in you know I don't know pick a small community somewhere in somewhere in Houma Bay as an example so for KPLC it's like too expensive for Kenzen and people say it's too expensive for them to connect to those customers so then they invite an independent power producer yeah can you produce some localized energy that we can then sell to these folks who are a So now what's happened over time is that, you know, this is the big question that we have, the big issue that we have with most of our society anyway in general in Kenya, right? Is that this issue of then what started out with good intentions has been executed with very poor and bad intentions.
Rufas KamauHOST
19:27
Yeah.
Jesse OgolaHOST
19:28
They either buy infrastructure bond which was oversubscribed by 300%, or buy some, you know, uh, CGEN, KENGEN, maybe Equity.
Jesse OgolaHOST
19:38
We have seen I&M.
Jesse OgolaHOST
19:40
We have seen DTB.
ChaxyHOST
14:57
Yes.
ChaxyHOST
14:58
So we have KenGen, we have Ketraco, And then you have Kenya Power.
ChaxyHOST
15:03
Yes.
ChaxyHOST
15:03
So what do they all do? Because when you ask about anything, energy and electricity, people just say Kenya Power.

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