knbs data: Kenya Power and Lighting Company ke.knbs.electricity-demand.annual annual

Electricity Demand and Supply.

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COVERAGE 2018 - 2024

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Where Kenya's electricity went, and how much of it never arrived, for the seven years to 2024. 80 observations in gigawatt hours: demand by customer category, then the supply-side reconciliation of exports, transmission and distribution losses, imports and local generation.

Nearly a quarter of everything Kenya generates is lost between the power station and the meter. Transmission and distribution losses were 3,307.4 of 14,101.9 GWh in 2024, 23.5 per cent, up from 21.9 per cent in 2018. Measured against what customers actually received rather than against total supply, the losses are 30.8 per cent.

Large and medium commercial and industrial users take the largest share of what is delivered, 5,515.2 GWh in 2024, against 4,459.1 for domestic and small commercial customers together.

Two categories exist in some years only, and carry no rows at all in the others rather than zeros. Off-peak was dropped from KNBS's own classification after 2018. E-Mobility appears for the first time in 2024, at 2.8 GWh.

The rows are four levels and the dataset says which in category_level, following the table's own arithmetic: the customer categories (component) sum to Total domestic demand (subtotal); that plus exports and losses (balancing) equals Total demand (total); and the two memorandum rows restate the total net of imports. Summing across levels double counts.

This is the only place KNBS publishes electricity losses on a calendar year. ke.knbs.electricity-sales-by-area, from the Statistical Abstract, publishes them on a fiscal year, so the two series are not comparable year for year. The demand rows here are a coarser cut of ke.knbs.electricity-sales-by-user, which splits Domestic from Small Commercial where this merges them.

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Kenya loses close to a quarter of the electricity it generates before it reaches a meter, and the share is higher now than in 2018.

Electricity delivered, exported and lost in transmission · GWh · 2018 to 2024

SOURCE: Kenya Power and Lighting Company · via Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · Electricity Demand and Supply (annual) · Updated 2026-08-18

#	year	period_start	category	category_level	status	value	unit
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COLUMN	TYPE	DESCRIPTION	UNIT
year	int64	Calendar year	-
period_start	date	1 January of the year	-
category	string	The customer category, or one of the reconciliation rows: Exports to Uganda and Tanzania, Transmission and distribution losses, Imports, Local generation, and the two printed totals.	-
category_level	string	component, subtotal, balancing or total, following the table's own arithmetic; memorandum for the two rows that restate the total net of imports. Summing across levels double counts.	-
status	string	final or provisional	-
value	float64	Electricity in gigawatt hours, null where the source prints the category but no figure for that year	-
unit	string	gwh	-

CITATION · APA 7

imibare contributors. (2026). Electricity Demand and Supply [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-18. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.electricity-demand.annual