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Kenya aims to end ban on new IPPs ‘within months’ as market edges open


Issue 508 - 23 Jun 2024 - By Neville Otuki | 3 minute read

According to cabinet secretary for energy Davis Chirchir, the Kenyan government’s moratorium on IPPs is ‘unsustainable’, amid the risk of future loadshedding due to shortage of supply, while other advances are in the pipeline, including wheeling tariffs and the supply of power through embedded networks, writes Neville Otuki in Nairobi.

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