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The Government through the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority announced that it had adjusted electricity prices.

This is after the Kenyan shilling stabilised against the dollar in expenditure related to the power sector according to a financial analyst. 

On Friday, February 14, through the Kenya Gazette, EPRA announced that it had reduced foreign exchange fluctuation by minus -0.89 Kenya cents per kWh (Kilowatts per hour) for all meter readings to be taken.

Kenya Power employees working on a power line. On Friday, February 14, the government adjusted electricity prices

It, however, increased fuel energy cost charge by 250 Kenya cents per kWh for all meter readings to be taken in February.

Fuel cost charge is the added cost or rebates to the consumers as a result of fluctuations in world prices as well as fluctuations in the quantity of oil consumed by electricity generation.

“All prices for electrical energy will be liable to a Water Resource Management Authority (WRMA) levy of plus 2.11 Kenya cents per kWh for all meter
readings to be taken in February,” the agency also raised the Water Resource Management Authority levy.

This increase in electricity price may have been triggered by the rise in fuel prices over the past years.

In 2020, fuel prices were expected to soar higher following the escalating tensions between the US and Iran, an oil-producing company.  

Oil prices have also been affected by the outbreak of coronavirus in China.

A report by Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC on Friday, February 14, stated that OPEC and the International Energy Agency (IEA) dramatically lowered their oil demand growth forecasts this year (2020) as a result of the deadly flu-like virus.

The outbreak restricts the flow of international trade as staff of the vessels bringing goods are subjected to scrutinisation against the disease.

In January the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority had increased fuel energy cost charge, foreign exchange fluctuation and the water resource management authority levy. 

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Kenya Power staff at work. On Friday, February 14, the government adjusted electricity prices through a gazettement notice

SOURCE:kenyagist.com

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