Kenya Power sold a record 12,792.42 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity in the year ended June 2026, as new customer connections and rising demand pushed sales to their strongest growth in four years.

Provisional data shows electricity sales increased by 12.2 per cent, or 1,389.42 GWh, from 11,403 GWh in the previous financial year.

The growth coincided with the addition of 411,710 new electricity connections, expanding the utility's customer base and supporting increased consumption.

Kenya has also recorded a series of new electricity demand peaks. The latest reached 2,549 megawatts on July 15, 2026, highlighting growing pressure on the country's power system as consumption rises.

Higher Sales Could Lift Revenue

The sharp increase in units sold could boost Kenya Power's electricity revenue when the company publishes its financial results for the year ended June.

The utility reported KSh219.29 billion in electricity revenue in the previous financial year, although falling base tariffs have limited the financial benefits of increased consumption in recent years.

Domestic customers consuming more than 100 kilowatt-hours a month, for example, paid a base tariff of KSh18.57 per unit in the year ended June 2026, compared with KSh19.08 a year earlier.

Growing electricity consumption is nevertheless positive for Kenya Power as it invests in expanding and modernising the national grid while attempting to reduce system losses.

But higher demand is also putting pressure on available generation capacity.

Kenya has increasingly relied on imported electricity to help meet peak demand. Power imports from Ethiopia rose to 1,584.45 GWh in the year ended June 2026, accounting for about 10 per cent of electricity supplied, compared with 1,268 GWh a year earlier.

Imports from Ethiopia and Uganda have helped the country manage evening demand while limiting greater reliance on expensive thermal generation.

For Kenya Power, the record sales underline both an opportunity and a challenge: rising electricity consumption can support revenue growth, but the grid and generation system must expand fast enough to reliably serve that demand.