State-owned electricity utility Kenya Power and Lighting Company is ramping up its involvement in promoting e-mobility in the country, investing almost US$2 million over the next three years.
Afrik 21 reports that in addition to switching out its current fleet with EVs and electric motorcycle, Kenya Power is setting up electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in several centres around the country, as part of it corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme
It recently launched its second EV charging station, this one at the Stima Plaza in Nairobi. The US$48 500 facility ‘includes two chargers – a 50 kW DC for one hour’s charging and a 22 kW AC for two hours. Its first station is located at its transport depot in Ruaraka. Both stations are open to the public for use by EV owners.
Stations are also planned in the counties of Kisumu and Mombasa, where local electric bus company BasiGo’s assembly plants are located.
‘Alongside our need to charge our electric vehicles, we intend to use our EV charging stations to collect data that will inform the next steps of our support to the growing e-mobility industry,’ says Kenya Power CEO Joseph Siror.
Clean Technica reports that Kenya Power has started implementing the country’s new e-mobility tariff in a bid to drive uptake of EVs. The utility is charging EV users KSh18/kWh (US$0.13/kWh) for up to 15 000kWh during peak and KSh8/kWh for off-peak.
According to Kenya’s 2024 draft national e-mobility policy, the government is seeking to promote local manufacturing and assembly of EVs, as well as improve the country’s e-mobility infrastructural and technical capacity.
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