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Electricity Customers by Region and Category.

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How many customers are connected to Kenya's electricity grid, counted two ways as at 30 June each year, for the ten years to 2024. 160 observations across sixteen items: eight regions and eight categories.

Connections rose from 3,611,904 in 2015 to 9,660,004 in 2024, 2.67 times as many. REP Customers, the Rural Electrification Programme, are 24.3 per cent of the 2024 total.

breakdown is region (Table 9.5) or category (Table 9.6), two counts of the same customers, not two populations to add: filter to one breakdown before summing anything. Table 9.5's eight regions sum to Table 9.6's published Total in every year, asserted rather than logged; the worst gap measured is a single customer, in 2021 and 2024, out of 9.66 million.

Table 9.5's regions are not ke.knbs.electricity-sales-by-area.annual's areas. That dataset has five areas, merging Nairobi with Mount Kenya and omitting Nyanza; this one has eight, splitting them apart and adding both Nyanza and REP Customers. Only four names are shared. KNBS's own captions mark the difference, Area against Region, and this catalog follows it.

Offpeak and E-Mobility carry nulls for the years they do not apply: Offpeak was dropped from KNBS's own classification in 2019 and E-Mobility is counted for the first time in 2024. A null means not published, not zero.

These are a snapshot as at 30 June, not an annual average or a year end.

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Kenya's grid connections rose from 3.6 million to 9.7 million in a decade, and a quarter of them come from the rural electrification programme.

Customers connected as at 30 June · millions · 2015 to 2024

SOURCE: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · Electricity Customers by Region and Category (annual) · Updated 2026-08-18
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imibare contributors. (2026). Electricity Customers by Region and Category [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-18. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.electricity-customers.annual