knbs data: Kenya Power & Lighting Company and Kenya Electricity Generating Company ke.knbs.electricity-generation.annual annual

Electricity Generation and Imports by Source.

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Where Kenya's electricity actually came from, for the seven years to 2024. 70 observations in gigawatt hours across six generating sources, imports, and the national total.

What this carries that no other KNBS table does is the ownership split of thermal oil. Independent power producers and off-grid stations generated 63.6 per cent of it in 2024, up from 51.1 per cent in 2018, and 84.0 per cent in 2020, the year KenGen's own thermal output collapsed from 668.9 GWh to 120.6.

Geothermal is the largest single source in every year, 5,551 GWh in 2024 against hydro's 3,631. Wind went from 375.6 GWh in 2018 to 1,797.7 in 2024, and solar from 13.7 to 460.4. Thermal oil fell from 1,545.8 to 1,129.5.

Imports went from 1.2 per cent of total supply in 2018 to 10.9 per cent in 2024.

**KNBS's own thermal split does not add up in 2021, and this dataset carries the source's figures rather than correcting them.** KenGen 434.33 plus independent producers 760.02 is 1,194.35 against a printed thermal total of 1,262.02, short by 67.67 GWh. The national total is built from the printed thermal figure and reconciles exactly, so one of the two owner figures is understated. All three editions print it unchanged.

The rows are three levels and the dataset says which in source_level. The thermal total is a component of the national total and the two owners are a split beneath it, not components themselves: filter to component to get rows that sum to the national total, and to split for the ownership breakdown. Summing across levels double counts.

Generation by source for these years is also published in ke.knbs.electricity-supply, drawn from the Statistical Abstract, which carries a longer span and no ownership split. The figures agree.

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Independent producers now generate roughly two thirds of Kenya's thermal oil power, against half in 2018.

Thermal oil generation, KenGen against independent producers · GWh · 2018 to 2024

SOURCE: Kenya Power & Lighting Company and Kenya Electricity Generating Company · via Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · Electricity Generation and Imports by Source (annual) · Updated 2026-08-18
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imibare contributors. (2026). Electricity Generation and Imports by Source [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-18. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.electricity-generation.annual