The Kenya Power and Lighting Company has announced plans to connect more than 400,000 new customers to the national grid by the end of this financial year.
Through a press release dated February 20, the power company stated that this plan is in line with its goal to achieve universal electricity access by 2030.
" To attain universal access to electricity, the Company will sustain the connectivity drive, with an additional 4 million customers targeted to be connected by the year 2030," KPLC wrote.
The company reported a remarkable 13.87 per cent increase in new customer connections, surpassing its target by connecting 256,206 new customers to the grid, thus expanding its total customer base to 9,454,819.
Kenya Power attributed the success to the availability of meters and the deployment of the Rapid Results Initiative which is meant to fast-track meter installation for new connections across the country.
"Following the improvement in meter availability, we recently initiated a metering initiative to accelerate connections," Kenya Power's Managing Director Joseph Siror said
We have exceeded our target for the half-year period and we are on course towards the attainment of our annual target, which will positively impact the journey towards universal access to electricity by the year 2030."
The Rapid Results Initiative was launched in October last year to tackle the backlog of pending connections, according to KPLC.
In addition to the RRI, Kenya Power says that it is counting on additional initiatives, such as the Last Mile Connection Project to be implemented to meet its yearly connection goals.