The Kenya Electricity Generation Company (KenGen) denounced claims of an electricity shortage in the country due to the low rainfall projected in the country.
Speaking in Olkaria on Sunday, February 28, Ag. Managing Director Abraham Serem maintained that the lower levels would not affect hydroelectric power production.
Serem disclosed that the government was importing power from Ethiopia to meet the deficit in electricity generation.
"Our partner Kenya Power is importing 200 megawatts of electricity from Ethiopia but our water is not completely dry in our dams.
"We have been managing in a very progressive way to ensure that we still have water to run in the foreseeable future until the rains come through," the MD explained.
Serem noted that KenGen began rationing the use of hydro-generated electricity and only used it when the demand was high.
"During the day when we have solar and wind, hydro generation is at its minimum and at night it comes in to take care of the demand we have," he remarked.
Meanwhile, Kenya continues to work with the European Investment Bank (EIB) to expedite the production of green energy while slowing down the reliance on thermal electricity.
EIB Vice President Thomas Östros pledged the bank's support for the state's plan to progress into more climate-friendly sources of energy.
"We have been jointly investing in this plant with KenGen for four decades and we look forward to the further partnership to ensure that affordable and reliable energy reaches all households," Östros stated.
He explained that part of the grand plan is to electrify some of the processes that ideally relied on fossil fuels.
The clarification came days after the Chairperson of President William Ruto's Economic Advisory Council David Ndii told Kenyans that the government was focused on producing reliable, not cheap power.
