Post by Veolia | Engineering & Consulting

🇰🇪 Veolia | Engineering & Consulting is proud to have delivered one of the most comprehensive electricity loss analysis conducted in Kenya to date, supporting The World Bank Group in identifying actionable loss reduction options and medium-term investment priorities. ⚡ Kenya's electricity sector has undergone remarkable growth over the past decade, expanding from 4.5 million connections in 2015 to over 10 million in 2025. Yet with system-wide losses now standing at approximately 22%, the sector faces a critical efficiency challenge with direct consequences on utility operational and financial performance and end-user tariffs. To address this, we conducted a full diagnostic-to-strategy assessment, resulting in a structured roadmap of targeted interventions covering: 🔸 AMI smart meter deployment 🔸 MV/LV transformer metering 🔸 GIS network integration 🔸 AI-driven meter reading and fraud detection 🔸 Advanced data analytics 🔸 Institutional restructuring Together, these measures will help curb energy theft, rationalise subsidies, and extend metering coverage, improving energy access, easing tariff pressure, and enhancing supply reliability for Kenyan households and businesses alike. 🤝 A heartfelt thank you to our team lead Sohail K., supervised by Jorge Bircher Aguirre, and to Jorge Colomer and Carlo Citerio for their contributions throughout the whole project. We are also grateful for the strong institutional support from Wilson Kariuki PE (Ministry of Energy & Petroleum) and Dr. Joseph Siror, Managing Director of Kenya Power (KPLC). Finally, special thanks to the World Bank team - Jukka-Pekka Strand, Aalok Pandey and Grace Njeru, PhD(Economics) - and to the KPLC leadership team: Naomi Gichuhi Kariuki, Leo Onyango Angira, and Dalton Lagat, whose commitment and collaboration were key to the success of this mission. #ElectricityLosses #GridEfficiency #KenyaPower #WorldBank #VEOLIA #EnergyTransition #SmartGrid