You will pay lower power bills this month and a couple of the next if the weatherman's predictions are anything to go by. The heavy rains have filled four power generating dams to capacity and the fifth dam is expected to spill in a weeks time if the rain intensity in its area of collection goes on.

Reliance on Hydro generated electricity results in the drop of fuel charge item on your monthly power bill and power generating company Kengen says it will be putting the dams to maximum production capacity while still trying to save water levels.

Electricity supplier Kenya Power says it will this month charge consumers Sh6.97 per kilowatt hour for fuel costs, down from Sh7.42 in April and Sh7.58 in March. Fuel charge is a variable component on the electricity bill determined by the amount of diesel used to generate electricity.

The variable determinants namely fuel charge and foreign exchange rates are usually determined by the amount of fuel used to generate electricity and the market prices for diesel fuel, for fuel charges; and the prevailing rates of exchange which affects purchase of other components of electricity generation.

It is expected that with the commissioning of the 21 megawatts Sang'oro power station in Nyanza, fuel costs on the bill will experience further downward adjustments. Kenyans have been subjected to severe power outages in the heavy downpours that the country has experienced in the recent past, something Kenya Power has blamed on infrastructural tempering and vandalism and not on capacity its to serve the population.