KenGen (Kenya): Trying to choose a customer
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KenGen sells every unit of its electricity to one buyer, Kenya Power, and by its own reporting supplied 59 per cent of what Kenya Power bought in the year to June 2025, on average more cheaply than private producers. The company began in 1954 to carry imported power, and was run inside the state power monopoly until reforms tied to World Bank funding separated it. Its Olkaria geothermal power came before its name. Communities moved for the Olkaria IV plant say they were resettled on smaller land, cut by ravines. In May 2026 KenGen said it would apply for a licence to sell power directly; no decision has been published.
