Kenya Power has begun migrating electric vehicle owners onto a dedicated EV charging tariff, as electricity consumption from transport electrification grows fast enough to warrant its own billing category.
The utility is identifying customers using grid power for vehicle charging and shifting them to a tariff the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority approved in 2023. That tariff offers lower electricity rates than standard commercial supply during designated periods, intended to make grid-powered charging economically viable as the EV market expands. Separating EV consumption from other electricity use lets Kenya Power planners track where demand is concentrated, how it changes through the day, and which network upgrades the grid will need as electric transport scales.
The programme’s numbers show how quickly the category has moved. Monthly electricity volumes linked to vehicle charging rose from 13,500 kilowatt-hours at the start of the programme to about 1.5 million kilowatt-hours today. Revenue from the e-mobility segment reached Sh35.25 million in February 2026. Total e-mobility revenue from July 2023 through April 2026 stands at Sh382 million. Long-term projections put annual charging revenue at close to Sh5.9 billion if vehicle uptake continues on its current path — a figure that would make EV charging a material revenue line for the utility.
The enrolled customer base is 331 metered e-mobility accounts, but growing fast. Kenya Power expects to reach 1,000 accounts before the end of the current financial year. That trajectory tracks Kenya’s broader vehicle registration shift: more than 35,000 electric vehicles were registered nationwide by the end of 2025, up from fewer than 800 three years earlier. Electric motorcycles have driven most of that growth, and they are the segment Kenya Power is most focused on scaling.
Kenya Power MD and CEO Joseph Siror said the utility plans to extend the EV tariff programme beyond private vehicles to motorcycles, public transport fleets, logistics operators, and commercial enterprises. Demand is currently concentrated in Nairobi, with contributions from the Coast, North Eastern, and West Kenya service areas.
For fleet operators and electric motorcycle owners, the EV tariff provides pricing predictability that matters when calculating returns on vehicle investments. Grid-powered charging at a lower designated rate changes the unit economics versus petrol alternatives, particularly for operators running vehicles across multiple shifts each day.
For Kenya Power, the EV segment is a new source of demand growth at a time when the utility has faced pressure from commercial customers cutting consumption through efficiency improvements and rooftop solar. Unlike solar displacement, which shrinks Kenya Power’s revenue base, EV charging grows the more electric vehicles Kenya’s roads carry. At Sh5.9 billion in annual revenue, the long-term projection would represent a genuine structural offset — provided the national vehicle market keeps registering EVs at anything close to its recent pace.
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