The Last Mile Connectivity Project (LMCP) has received a Kes 1.85 billion grant from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to connect power to more than 9,000 households.
According to Rosemary Oduor, the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) General Manager for Commercial Services and Sales, the households are located in the counties of Nakuru, Kilifi, Kwale, and Nyandarua, where JICA is financing other key energy projects.
“We expect to connect all the targeted households across the four counties by January 2025. The Company is committed to fast-tracking electricity connections across the country to achieve universal access to electricity. We thank JICA for the grant, which will go a long way toward enabling these households to access electricity and transform their livelihoods.”
The JICA grant comes two months after Kenya Power signed twenty-six contracts to implement Phase IV of the Last Mile Connectivity Project.
The Kes 27 billion project is funded by the French Development Agency (AFD), the European Union (EU), and the European Investment Bank (EIB). By November 2025, it will connect 280,000 new customers to the grid.
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To date, the Last Mile Connectivity Project has been funded at Kes 73.1 billion.
It is anchored on the Kenya National Electrification Strategy, which was developed in 2015 to speed up electricity access for households and businesses in Kenya.
Kenya Power is the project's implementing agency on behalf of the government.
Since its inception in 2015, the Last Mile Connectivity Project has significantly contributed to the growth of the electricity access rate in the county which currently stands at 76% with 9.6 million households connected to the grid.
Under the first three phases of the Last Mile Project, 746,867 households were connected to the grid at a cost of Kes 51.1 billion.
