knbs data: Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) ke.knbs.captive-power.annual annual

Licensed Captive Power Capacity by Technology.

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The generating capacity Kenya's businesses built for themselves rather than buying from the grid, for the seven years to 2024. 84 observations across eleven technologies and their total, in megawatts.

Captive power is capacity above 1 MW that an autoproducer runs inside its own facility, for its own consumption. It is the source's own definition, and it means none of this capacity appears in ke.knbs.electricity-capacity, which counts the national grid.

It has nearly tripled. Licensed captive capacity was 133.5 MW in 2018 and 390.4 in 2024, which is 12.1 per cent of the 3,235.5 MW installed on the national grid, up from 4.9 per cent in 2018. That is more private generating capacity than the grid's entire solar fleet, and two thirds of its remaining thermal oil.

The growth is concentrated. Waste heat recovery went from nothing to 83.5 MW, solar from 3.5 to 88.2, bagasse from 15.7 to 60.2 and thermal from 18.5 to 42.9. Coal, cogeneration and geothermal have not moved in seven years.

The figures are cumulative stocks of licensed capacity, not annual additions, which the table states in its own footnote. Two years can therefore be identical without anything having stalled in the second: 2023 and 2024 are both 390.4.

The rows are two levels and the dataset says which in technology_level. Summing across levels double counts: filter to component first.

Biothermal carries nulls before 2022, where the source prints a blank or a dash, and a real zero in 2023 and 2024, where it prints one. The two are not the same claim and are not merged.

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Kenyan businesses have nearly tripled the generating capacity they run for themselves, to 12 per cent of the national grid's.

Licensed captive power capacity, and its share of national installed capacity · MW · 2018 to 2024

SOURCE: Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) · via Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · Licensed Captive Power Capacity by Technology (annual) · Updated 2026-08-18
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imibare contributors. (2026). Licensed Captive Power Capacity by Technology [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-18. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.captive-power.annual