Kenya Power
Kenya Power Website: Kenya Power owns and operates most of the electricity transmission and distribution system in the country and sells electricity to over 2.6 million customers (as at April 2014). Kplc Kenya Company’s key mandate is to plan for sufficient electricity generation and transmission capacity to meet demand; building and maintaining the power distribution and transmission network and retailing of electricity to its customers.
Kenya Power is a public company listed in the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE). The company is a national electric utility company, managing electric metering, licensing, billing, emergency electricity service and customer relations.
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Kenya Power and Lighting
In addition to electricity distribution to industry, offices, schools, hospitals, and domestic users, Kplc Kenya also offers optic fiber connectivity to telecommunication companies through its optical fiber cable network that runs along its high voltage power lines across the country mainly to manage the national power grid.
Kplc Kenya
Kplc Kenya traces its history from 1875 when Seyyied Barghash, the Sultan of Zanzibar, acquired a generator to light his palace and nearby streets. This generator was acquired in1908 by Harrali Esmailjee Jeevanjee, a Mombasa based merchant, leading to the formation of the Mombasa Electric Power and Lighting Company whose mandate was to provide electricity to the island. In the same year Engineer Clement Hertzel was granted the exclusive right to supply Nairobi city with electricity. This led to the formation of the Nairobi Power and Lighting Syndicate.
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In 1922, the Mombasa Electric Power and Lighting Company and Nairobi Power and Lighting Syndicate merged under a new company known as East African Power and Lighting Company (EAP&L). The EAP&L expanded outside Kenya in 1932 when it acquired a controlling interest in the Tanganyika Electricity Supply Company Limited (now TANESCO) and later obtaining a generating and distribution licenses for Uganda in 1936, thereby entrenching its presence in the East African region. EAP&L exited Uganda in 1948 when the Uganda Electricity Board (UEB) was established to take over distribution of electricity in the country.
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On February 1, 1954 Kenya Power Company (KPC) was formed and commissioned to construct the transmission line between Nairobi and Tororo in Uganda This was to transmit power generated at the Owen Falls Dam to Kenya. Kplc was managed by EAP&L under a management contract. In the same year, EAP&L listed its shares on the Nairobi Securities Exchange. Making it one of the first companies to list on the bourse.
Kenya Power Website and Contacts
Please call our Kenya Power customer care contact centre hotline numbers 95551 or 0703070707 or 0732170170 for service-related enquiries.
KPLC Customer Care Tel: 95551 or 0703 070 707 or 0732 170 170
KPLC Website: www.kplc.co.ke
Electrical Lighting in Kenya
Electrical Lighting in Kenya: In 1908, a wealthy merchant, Harrali Esmailjee Jeevanjee, bought a generator and brought it to Mombasa. Jeevanjee founded the Mombasa Electric Power and Lighting Company, just at the same time when Engineer Clement Hertzel was granted exclusive rights to supply electricity to the then district and town of Nairobi.
While Jeevanjee was lighting up Mombasa, Hertzel formed a new company, known as Nairobi Power and Lighting Syndicate, based at Ruiru.
It was these two companies that would later merge to become the East African Power and Lighting Company (EAP&L) in 1922. Within 10 years of its existence, it acquired controlling shares in the Tanganyika Electricity Supply Company (TANESCO) and, four years later, it was given generating and distribution licences for Uganda. But Nairobi’s first street lighting consisted of oil lamps, whose efficacy usually caused public outcry. Many times, some drunken marksrnen shot at the lamps, which exploded in small fireballs.
Electrical Lighting in Kenya
Later on the Uganda Electricity Board (UEB) was established by the Ugandan government to take over distribution of electricity in the country. lhe Kenya Power Company (KPC) was created in 1954 – to be managed by EAP&L to transmit power from Uganda through the Tororo-Jinja line.