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Electricity costs in Kenya

See here for information about theproposed electricity tariff increasesin 2013.

This page contains a record of current and historic electricity prices in Kenya. It was

last updated with data up toOctober 2013.If you are not interested in the details, jump straight to the graphs oftotal cost.

Core tariffsThese are the core tariffsset by the Kenya Power and Lighting Company.They do notchange frequently. See below for the additional (and quite substantial) variablesurcharges.

Tariff

Charges (KES)

Fixedcharge

Energy charge (perkWh)

Demand charge (perkVA)

DC (Domestic, 240V) 120

First 50kWh:2.00

50 to 1 500kWh:8.10

Thereafter:18.57

n/a

SC (Small Commercial,

240V)120 8.96 n/a

CI1 (Commercial, 415V) 800 5.75 600

CI2 (Commercial, 11kV) 2 500 4.73 400

CI3 (Commercial, 33kV) 2 900 4.49 200

CI4 (Commercial, 66kV) 4 200 4.25 170

CI5 (Commercial, 132kV) 11 000 4.10 170

IT (Domestic water heating) 120 4.85 n/a

Surcharges

Presently, the surcharges cost more than the base rate itself. They are applied on alltariffs as follows.

Surcharge Rate / Notes

Fuel Cost Charge

(FCC)

Variable rate per kWh, published monthly by KPLC in the Kenya Gazette (but

not on their website!). It is supposedto be reflective of the cost (to KPLC) of

generating electricity during the previous month.

Foreign Exchange

Rate Fluctuation

Adjustment

Variable rate per kWh, published monthly by KPLC. This includes the sum of

the foreign currency costs incurred by KenGen, the sum of the foreign

currency costs incurred by [KPLC] other than those costs relating to Electric

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Surcharge Rate / Notes

(FERFA) Power Producers, and the sumof the foreign currency costs incurred by

KenGen.

Inflation

Adjustment (IA)

Variable rate per kWh, published monthly by KPLC. Factors include theUnderlying Consumer Price Index as posted by Kenya National Bureau of

Statistics and the Consumer PricesIndex for all urban consumers (CPI - U)

for the US city average for all items 1982 - 84 as published by the United States

Department of Labour Statistics. Why on earth does the cost of Kenyan

electricity depend on how much folks in the USA are spending?

ERC Levy 3 cents per kWh

REP Levy 5% of the base rate

VAT

16% on everything except the ERC and REP levies and Inflation Adjustment

(Prior to 2 September 2013, consumption less than 200kWh was exluded

from VAT, and VAT was charged at 12%. These concessions were

removed in the VAT Act 2013.)

The rates that vary monthly are, then, the FCC , the FERFA, and the IA. Theirvariation is charted below. These data are taken from our monthly electricity bills.Please verify it directly with KPLC if it is important to you.

Date range:All2008200920102011201220130

200400600800

Jan 09Jan 10Jan 11Jan 12Jan 13

cents/kWh

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(show tabular data)

Total costBelow is a chart of the average cost of electricity for each tariff, worked out from allthe costs described above. It is an estimate of what you can expect to pay on yourmonthly electricity usage per kWh, excluding fixed and demand charges. TheDC cost is based on the 50-1500kWh usage band.Date range:All200820092010201120122013Tariff:DC, SC, CI1, CI2, CI3, CI4, CI5, IT

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