State House hosts summit on electricity generation, accessibility, reliability

A summit on electricity generation, accessibility and reliability was held at State House Nairobi on Wednesday in the first ever forum of its kind.

The forum dubbed the #StateHouseSummit and attended by President Uhuru Kenyatta in part was aimed at promoting engagement between policy makers and consumers in an effort to keep the former accountable to the latter.

The forum therefore brought together those with a hand in the electricity supply chain – Kenya Power, the Rural Electrification Authority, Kenya Electricity Transmission Company – and consumers who ranged from the jua kali sector to their bigger private sector counterparts.

Domestic electricity consumers were given the opportunity to participate in the event through Twitter using the aforementioned hashtag and #PoweringFreedom and represented by among others blogger Robert Alai.

The Ministry of Energy sought to highlight the Jubilee Administration’s accomplishments on the electricity front in the last three years touting the more than two fold increase in the number of households connected to the electricity grid and the connection of over 22,000 primary schools to the grid.