KENYA POWER SIGNS CONTRACT FOR LAST MILE CONNECTIVITY PROJECT

Second phase of Kenya’s Last Mile Connectivity Project (LMCP) begins.

Kenya’s utility company, Kenya Power, have signed 23 contracts for the implementation of the government initiative termed  Last Mile Connectivity Project (LMCP), which aims to connect the entire country to the national electricity grid.

The project which is already in its second phase, is funded jointly by  the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the World Bank. With AfDB providing 87% of the funds while World Bank provides the remaining 13%.

In the first phase of the project, 314,200 households were connected to the national grid, this second phase will be  connecting about 314,200 households using the already existing 5,320 distribution transformers across the country’s 47 counties.

According to the Managing Director & CEO of Kenya Power, the implementation of Last Mile Connectivity Project  and other electrification projects that targeted the informal and low-income settlements, the customer base of the company have grown by 1.4 million customers to give a value of 6,182,282 customers.

Also this rapid growth have increased the country’s electrification access rate from  27% in 2013 to 70.3% as at June 2017, and universally access is targeted by 2020.

The second phase of the project which involves 15 contracts for works spread across the country, have already seen six(6) of those contracts signed.

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