About the Project
Kenya Power partnered with two UK Aid-funded research and innovation programmes to accelerate the uptake of
electric cooking (eCooking) in Kenya: Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) and UK Partnerships for Accelerating
Climate Transitions (UK PACT). The collaboration ran in parallel with the development of the Ministry of Energy
& Petroleum’s Kenya National eCooking Strategy (KNeCS) and involved support for twelve individual projects
designed to build capacity within Kenya Power and develop a sustainable eCooking sector in Kenya. The results
reveal new opportunities for Kenya Power to catalyse the growth of Kenya’s emerging eCooking sector, which
has the potential to not only stimulate demand for electricity, but also to increase the social and environmental
impacts of electricity access.
New opportunities identified
by the eCAP programme
As a result of the awareness raising activities carried out with the Kenya Power management during the eCAP programme, the company has now set an ambitious goal of enabling 500,000 customers to cook primarily with electricity by 2026. The most viable opportunities emerging from the eCAP projects that could be adopted by Kenya Power to:
Scale up utility-enabled financing pilots
Pilot an eCooking tariff with smart-metered appliances
Leverage the KNeCS to drive forward Kenya Power's corporate strategy for demand growth from cooking.
Closely monitor demand growth from cooking to ensure electrical infrastructure evolves to meet the additional load.
Expand awareness campaigns to reframe
eCooking as an aspirational yet achievable solution for modern Kenyan cooks.
Strengthen private sector partnerships
to foster the growth of a sustainable and
diversified eCooking marketplace
Explore innovative partnerships with local
power distributors to reduce losses and
increase safety in informal settlements
Support the electrification of cooking beyond households by rolling out eCooking inKenya Power facilities and other key types of institution
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Customers to cook
with Electricity by 2026
with Electricity by 2026
The eCooking Capacity Building & Market Development Programme
Running in parallel to the National Strategy development, eCAP was designed to build capacity within Kenya
Power and other key sectoral players to be able to deliver on the ambitious goals of the strategy. The following
section distils out the key findings from each of the 12 projects implemented under the eCAP programme.
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