Tag: Kenya Power
Kenya Power: How to Apply for New Electricity Connection Online
Since 1983, when East African Power and Lighting Company (EAP&L) split to form the Kenya Power and Lighting Company Limited (KPLC) in a market...
Smart Poles Fibre Business to Diversify Kenya Power’s Revenue Streams
Almost exactly a year ago, Kenya Power announced it will start offering fixed internet services under a project dubbed Lit Fibre. The venture into...
KPLC Targets E-mobility With Ksh 10 Billion Network Expansion
Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) will spend KSh.10 billion during the financial year commencing July 2023. KPLC intends to construct new substations and...
BasiGo Launches Another High-Power DC Fast Charging Station
Kenya’s E-Mobility start-up, BasiGo has launched a high-power DC Fast charging station for electric buses in Buru Buru. BasiGo promises to bring clean electric...
Kenya Power Reveals The Grid Network is Robust Enough for Electric Vehicles
Power producer Kenya Power has assured investors in the electric mobility value chain that the grid network is robust enough to support the transition...
Kenya Power to Develop a Roadmap for Electric Vehicles
The state of electric vehicles in Kenya is interesting. The country has hundreds of electric vehicles plying local roads (more than 1000), and adding...
State of Electric Vehicles in Kenya in 2022
The electric vehicle craze hasn’t really caught up in the Kenyan market, but the state has been making strides in introducing the technology to...
Kenya Power Limits Token Purchase Via M-PESA Only
There are many ways to buy Kenya Power tokens in Kenya. The most popular channel is via M-PESA paybill.
However, the channel costs customers...
How to Buy Kenya Power Tokens Without Transaction Charges
UPDATE: Equity and KCB introduced charges when purchasing Kenya Power Kenya tokens via their platforms. We have amended the story to reflect those changes....
Kenya Power Set to Introduce Sambaza Tokens
What would you do if you were able to share Kenya Power tokens with friends or family, just in the same manner you Sambaza...
Kenya Power Fixed Internet Service Will Be Named Lit Fibre, To Launch in June 2023
At the end of 2021, we learned that Kenya Power was planning to offer internet services in rural areas.
These areas are hardly served by...
Kenya’s Partial Blackout: Best and Funniest Reactions
Early this morning(10:45am), Kenya went into a partial Blackout with several major towns lacking electricity including Nairobi, Mombasa, Kilifi, Malindi, Kwale, Watamu, Kisumu, Nakuru...
Kenya Power Thinks It Can Connect Your Rural Home to Fibre
Kenya Power believes that it is in a better position to distribute high-speed internet to the rural parts of the country.
This is not news,...
Safaricom Invites Bids For Smart Meters System With Kenya Power
In an attempt to fix weaknesses in its current power delivery system, Kenya Power recently signed a deal with Safaricom to install new electricity...
What Are Safaricom and Kenya Power Smart Meters, and Installation Roadmap
Safaricom is diversifying and adding one more service in their portfolio, and it is in electrical connection to your household.
The telco provider, which...
Kenya Power Set To Join Solar Business To Steady Revenues
Kenya Power is set to join the solar business, which is a move seen to help the utility parastatal protect its future revenue streams...
You Can Now Purchase Kenya Power Tokens Using Bonga Points
You can now buy power tokens using Bonga points. This development follows a partnership between Safaricom and Kenya Power that will see the electricity...
Kenya Power Completes Pilot Phase of Live Network Maintenance
Kenya Power launched their Live Line maintenance programme a few years back that was geared to conduct periodic maintenance without having to turn off power...
Kenya Power Cautions Telcos Who Illegally Lay Fibre Optic Cables on their Poles
Fibre Optic usage in Kenya has grown over the past few years and that means a lot of these cables have been laid around...
10 Kenyan Government Websites You Need in Your Life
Accessing services provided by the government has become the norm rather than the exception. In the last few years, we have seen the Kenyan...
Kenya Power Pre-Paid tokens explained (Part II),Kenya Power bill
Why is your Kenya Power bill about to shoot up dramatically? If you've read the news recently, you'll have seen that Kenya Power intends...
This Telegram Bot Allows You to Purchase Kenya Power Tokens
Bots are the new apps
Kenya Power Pre-paid Tokens Explained [Part 1]
KPLC pre-paid tokens explained and simplified.
Safaricom Pilots Fiber to the Home In Nairobi, Aims for Zuku’s Jugular
In 2015, Kenya Power announced it was considering venturing into the home internet business. The company was to rely on its extensive distribution footprint...
Kenya Power Plans Bring Internet to Kenyan Homes by December 2016
In 2015, Kenya Power announced it was considering venturing into the home internet business. The company was to rely on its extensive distribution footprint...
How a Monkey Took Over Kenyan Social Media
Yesterday, a rare thing happened in Kenya. We are usually accustomed to the planned power outages for maintenance and localized outages when there is...
Kenya Power Bot is a Telegram bot for checking your electricity bill
The Bot platform of Telegram Messenger is one of the cool things about the chatting app. These bots do various automated tasks for you...
Kenya Power Launches Power Alerts Website for Free Automated Power Outage Alerts
If you have lived in Kenya, you will have an idea of the unreliable nature of the electricity distribution by the national company Kenya...
Kenya Power to Reduce Transmission Costs by Adopting Fibreglass Poles
One of the benefits given by the fibreglass is its ability to withstand adverse weather conditions, it is also cheaper to maintain. This has...
Kenya Power adds Family Bank ATMs as postpay electricity payment solution
Postpay electricity customers in Kenya will now have an added paypoint to pay their monthly bills, thanks to a partnership realized earlier between Kenya...
Seven Seas integrates Oracle Exadata Machine to manage Kenya Power Data
Kenya Power has gone digital, in management of data by integrating Oracle Exadata, a data warehousing and online transaction processing machine. Kenya power is...
