Kenya Power revealed plans to set up new charging stations for electric vehicles in nine other locations within the country after debuting one at its headquarters at Stima Plaza on Monday.
In a statement, Kenya Power on Monday, April 22 revealed the charging station based at the company's headquarters was constructed at a cost of Ksh6.5 million.
Notably, the charging station at Stima Plaza comes complete with two chargers. The first one, a 50 kW DC with an hour’s charging time capacity and another with 22 kW AC capacity with 2-hours charging time.
Kenya Power has revealed that the 9 other charging stations will be complete by the end of July 2024 which will be stationed at its various offices across the country.
The locations include; Donholm, Nakuru, Mombasa, Mtito Andei, Kisumu, Eldoret, Roysambu, Electricity House Nairobi and Ragati.
Further, the company revealed that it had set aside Ksh 258 million to facilitate purchase of electric vehicles and motorbikes for its operations as well as the set up of the aforementioned charging stations.
"The future of transport in electric and as a Company, we are very excited to be leading the conversations around E-mobility. 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," stated Kenya Power's Managing Director & CEO, Dr. (Eng) Siror.
Following the launch of the Stima Plaza station, two stations are now in operation with the other located at the company’s Ruaraka Depot.
Siror further revealed that Kenya Power is aiming to construct 10 more facilities within the next two years.
"We have set aside an annual budget of Ksh20 million to set up EV charging stations at all our offices across the country. Beyond the additional charging stations that we intend to put up in the current financial year, we intend to install 10 additional facilities annually in 2025 and 2026," explained Dr.(Eng) Siror.
Alongside the EV charging station, Kenya Power has also launched two electric heavy-duty vehicles that will be deployed for routine operations at a cost of Ksh18 million.
The plan is in line with the company’s mission to align itself with the future of mobility which experts believe leans towards electrically powered vehicles.
