The\nenergy watchdog has cut retail electricity prices for large manufacturers in a\nfresh bid to make power costs competitive compared with other African nations\nsuch as Ethiopia, South Africa and Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nEnergy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) has lowered retail tariffs for\nbig consumers to Sh7.99 per kilowatt hour (kWh) from Sh10.10 a unit, reflecting\na 20.8 percent fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Manufacturers\noperating in Special Economic Zones close to the Naivasha standard gauge\nrailway (SGR) station will pay Sh5 per kWh, from the current rate of Sh10.10\nand Sh12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Domestic,\ncommercial and small industrialists have been exempted from the discount as\nKenya Power continues to push for higher tariffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nlower electricity prices for industrialists are meant to boost economic growth,\nentice investors and rev up job creation. The Kenyan government has been trying\nto boost investment in the power-hungry manufacturing sector in recent years,\nincluding the opening of light vehicle assembly plants by global firms like\nPeugeot and Volkswagen. Read\nmore>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The energy watchdog has cut retail electricity prices for large manufacturers in a fresh bid to make power costs competitive compared with other African nations such as Ethiopia, South Africa…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}