Tuesday evening the power supplier, KPLC announced an invitation qualified bidders to supply Smart Meters that will be the new face in Kenyan households.
KPLC has now embarked on the smart meters to lock out cartels who have infiltrated the power supply chain.
The parastatal has in the past months been involved in legal issues in meter tendering that derailed the Smart Meter project.
In a document signed by Dr John Ngenoh, General Mnager Supply Chain at Kenya Power and seen by Citizen Digital, the electricity supplier invited bidders to “supply of single phase and three Phase Smart Meters.”
Kenya power has restricted the Smart Meters to “local Meter Manufacturers and Assemblers,” in agreement to President William Ruto’s Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda.
The move by Kenya Power comes as a result of power cartels siphoning tokens and defrauding the power supplier of its reimbursable.
The project is estimated to cost Ksh.1.6 billion based on dollar volatility and forex escalation.
