Electricity costs are bound to go up this July based on a new tariff that Kenya Power has adopted. The upward review was to be effected last year but the government shelved the plans in a move to shield consumers from the hard times in June last year when cost of food and energy was high.
The new tariff seeks to increase the charge per kilowatt hour (kWh) to Sh3.70 on domestic consumers for the first 50 units up from the current rate of Sh2.00 per kilowatt hour. It is also looking to increase the monthly fixed charge—meant to recover costs related to meter reading, billing and accounting—from Sh120 to Sh160.
The new tariff will see households consuming between 51 units and 1,500 units will pay Sh11.79 per Kwh from Sh8.10 per Kwh while those consuming above 1,500 units will pay Sh22 per unit from Sh18.75.
Retail electricity tariffs are reviewed every three years except for periodic adjustments on the fuel cost, foreign exchange and inflation that are streamed down to the consumer. These adjustments normally have no effect on the revenue of the electricity supplier.
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