IPPs accuse Kenya Power of ‘hiding behind’ Covid-19
A Kenya Power technician at work. Kenya Power issued notices to independent power producers (IPPs), stating its inability to buy power from them. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
Economic effects brought on by the coronavirus pandemic have caused a significant drop — about eight per cent per month — in electricity demand in Kenya.
This has forced Kenya Power into a tricky balancing scheme in the procurement of electricity, resulting in protests from independent power producers (IPPs), when it became clear that Kenya Power was planning to completely lock them out.
