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Nairobi \u2014 Kenya Power has warned that the proposed Sh200 per meter charge for power line wayleaves could increase the country’s energy costs by 30 percent, translating to an additional Sh63.8 billion annually.<\/em><\/p>\n A power line wayleave allows utility firms to legally install, maintain, and repair power lines on private land. If implemented, Kenya Power cautions that the extra costs will be passed on to consumers, leading to significantly higher electricity bills.<\/p>\n The warning comes after Nairobi…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 Kenya Power has warned that the proposed Sh200 per meter charge for power line wayleaves could increase the country’s energy costs by 30 percent, translating to an additional Sh63.8 billion annually. A power line wayleave allows utility firms to legally install, maintain, and repair power lines on private land. If implemented, Kenya Power […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":192794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[44140,258,256,7578,11509,7424,4688,430,6402,257,7047,6354,254,50785],"class_list":["post-192793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-30pc","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-charges","tag-costs","tag-energy","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-line","tag-news","tag-power","tag-push","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wayleave"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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