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Electricity Sales by Type of User.

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Who buys the electricity Kenya's grid sells, by type of user, for the ten years to 2024. 80 observations across eight categories: seven customer types and their published Total.

Large commercial and industrial users take 51.3 per cent of everything sold in 2024, 5,515,160 of 10,751,750 thousand kWh. Domestic customers, the large majority of connections, take 26.7 per cent, 2,873,300 thousand kWh.

category_level marks each row component or total. Summing across levels double counts: filter to component first.

Offpeak was dropped from KNBS's own classification of user types in 2019, and E-Mobility is sold for the first time in 2024. Both carry null values in the years they do not apply rather than zeros: a null here means not published, not none sold.

This dataset and ke.knbs.electricity-sales-by-area.annual (Table 9.3) do not add up against each other, and are not meant to. This one is calendar years and includes sales to Rural Electrification Schemes; that one is fiscal years and excludes them. For 2023/24 against 2024 the two differ by 253.96 million kWh even after adding the Rural Electrification row back. Anyone holding both will be tempted to add them; do not.

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Large commercial and industrial users take half the electricity Kenya sells, 51.3 per cent of it, against 26.7 per cent for every household combined.

Electricity sales by type of user · million kWh · 2015 to 2024

SOURCE: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · Electricity Sales by Type of User (annual) · Updated 2026-08-18
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CITATION · APA 7

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