Thread by @W_Asherah

Kenya power's electricity cost is cost reflective.

Example 1:

A certain organisation installs poor electricity infrastructure in rural areas and then passes them to KPLC.

KPLC takes out loans to fix that infrastructure. Then that cost gets pushed to you.

https://twitter.com/irdafrica_Kenya/status/1953369784688542029

We've asked so many times why that organisation exists. Because everything it does can be done by KPLC. And they do all that without 1% of KPLC's engineering capacities.

Every time we ask, it's radio silence. If you want to fix the electricity sector, collapse them back to KPLC.

So far, we've been hiving off organisations from KPLC shaghala baghala. The only organisation that should exist outside KPLC is KENGEN.

There - I said it. Those other geothermal guys should be collapsed into KENGEN because we all know they depend on KENGEN for everything.

Saa hii, mkiangalia loans za KPLC, you'll find a good chunk are funds they've taken out to fix messes created by the other energy organisations.

Anzeni na LMCP tu. Check sites done by KPLC vs sites done by anyone else. See the stark difference. And they're supposed to own both.

Electricity would be so much cheaper if we didn't split KPLC into so many different organisations with no capacity to do their work.

Kazi ya hao wengine being taking loans for politicians. Then loading those costs on KPLC, which then loads them onto the tariff.

Don't even get me started on the fact that the worst of our electricity costs aren't even down to the electricity tariff. Like have you seen the levies.

You start with 50 bob. When you're done adding the levies, your electricity is almost double...

Anyway, acha I end my rant.

The energy sector should comprise of:
1. MoE
2. KPLC (Treasury takes out loans for them to do unprofitable rural electrification)
3. KENGEN
4. EPRA (All of the energy section of KEBS should be moved to them)
5. Remove the grid from REREC and leave it purely off grid focused.