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Electricity Capacity and Generation.

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COVERAGE 2015 - 2024
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How much electricity Kenya can make and how much it actually made, by source, for the ten years to 2024. 170 observations across two measures: installed capacity in megawatts, and generation in million kilowatt hours.

Geothermal is the largest single source in every year of the decade, generating 5,551 million kWh in 2024 against hydro's 3,631.

Imports have gone from a rounding error to a real share of supply. Kenya bought 59 million kWh from Uganda and Tanzania in 2015 and 1,533 in 2024, 26 times as much, which is 10.9 per cent of everything it used.

Wind and solar capacity rose from 26.7 MW to 648.6 MW over the decade and the two together still generate less than geothermal alone.

The rows are three levels and the dataset says which in source_level. Summing across levels double counts: filter to component first. The capacity table's own total row is printed with no label at all in the source; it is named Total here.

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Kenya's electricity imports rose twenty six fold in a decade, from 59 to 1,533 million kWh, and now supply more than a tenth of everything it uses.

Generation by source and imports · million kWh · 2015 to 2024

SOURCE: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · Electricity Capacity and Generation (annual) · Updated 2026-08-18
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CITATION · APA 7

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