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Electricity Sales by Area.

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VERSION v2026-08-18

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COVERAGE 2014/15 - 2023/24

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SOURCE www.knbs.or.ke

How much electricity Kenya's five regions bought and how much never reached a meter, for the ten fiscal years to 2023/24. 80 observations across eight rows: five areas, their Sub-Total, Transmission losses, and the grand Total.

Transmission losses were 2,990.9 of 12,803.9 million kWh put onto the grid in 2023/24, 23.4 per cent lost before it reached a customer. That share has risen across the decade, from 18.6 per cent in 2014/15 to a peak of 25.3 per cent in 2020/21, and has eased only partway back down since: 2023/24 is still 4.7 points above where the decade started.

area_level marks each row component, subtotal, loss or total. Summing across levels double counts: filter to component first.

The header for 2022/23 is repaired. The source prints a bare 87.9 in that column instead of a year; the column is identified by matching its five area figures against the previous edition's own 2022/23 column, the only one that agrees with all five, rather than by position. Its values are exactly as printed; only the column's label is reconstructed.

This dataset and ke.knbs.electricity-sales-by-user.annual do not add up against each other, and are not meant to. This one is fiscal years and excludes sales to Rural Electrification Schemes by its own footnote; that one is calendar years and includes them. For 2023/24 against 2024, this dataset's Sub-Total (9,813.0 million kWh, excluding Rural Electrification) plus that dataset's own Rural Electrification figure (684.79 million kWh) is 10,497.79, against that dataset's Total of 10,751.75: a gap of 253.96 million kWh even after adding Rural Electrification back. Anyone holding both will be tempted to add them; do not.

Fiscal years run 1 July to 30 June.

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TRANSMISSION LOSSES

Nearly a quarter of the electricity Kenya puts on its grid never reaches a meter, and the share is higher now than it was a decade ago.

Transmission losses as a share of electricity dispatched · fiscal years 2014/15 to 2023/24

SOURCE: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · Electricity Sales by Area (annual) · Updated 2026-08-18

#	fiscal_year	fiscal_year_start	area	area_level	status	value	unit
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COLUMN	TYPE	DESCRIPTION	UNIT
fiscal_year	string	Kenyan fiscal year, e.g. 2014/15	-
fiscal_year_start	date	1 July of the fiscal year's starting year	-
area	string	Nairobi and Mount Kenya, Coast, Rift Valley, Western or North Eastern, or Sub-Total, Transmission losses or Total.	-
area_level	string	component, subtotal, loss or total. Summing across levels double counts; filter to component first.	-
status	string	final or provisional	-
value	float64	Amount, in the unit named alongside	-
unit	string	million_kwh	-

CITATION · APA 7

imibare contributors. (2026). Electricity Sales by Area [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-18. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.electricity-sales-by-area.annual