The High Court on Friday halted the recently launched deal between Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (KETRACO) and Adani Energy Solutions, delivering a setback to the government’s plans to partner with the multinational. The deal, inaugurated by the President just a day earlier, faced a legal challenge from the Law Society of Kenya (LSK), which petitioned […]
Adani Energy Solutions will revamp and expand Kenya’s energy transmission network in a 30-year deal valued at Ksh 95.7 billion. Energy cabinet secretary Opiyo Wandayi says the pact was signed on Wednesday this week, marking the end of a four-month marathon negotiations. The company is part of the Adani Group of India which has initiated […]
Anti-graft agency is probing a senior manager at Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (Ketraco) over allegations that he amassed great wealth through corruption. The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) filed an application at the High Court seeking an order to freeze the accounts and properties of Ketraco supply chain manager Peter Maina Njehia and his wife […]
The former Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (Ketraco) boss Fernandes Barasa has been summoned by the National Assembly Energy Committee over the Lake Turkana Wind Power contract. The Public Investment Committee (PIC) say they will require Barasa’s presence to explain how he awarded the contract of the construction of the LTWP without being directly involved in […]
Transport and energy state agencies have become the most sought after dockets in the country given high scale bribery and get rich quick schemes that is embedded in the institutions. Fernades Barasa, resigned from his CEO position at the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (Ketraco) ahead of his time something that didn’t catch many by surprise […]
For three consecutive days last week, the National Assembly’s Public Investments Committee (PIC) was unable to extract any information from senior officials of three government entities on the State’s dealings with the Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP) company. By coincidence or design, officials from National Treasury, Kenya Power and the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (Ketraco)were […]
A Chinese firm – China CAMC Engineering Co. Ltd has moved to court to stop a Power State agency KETRACO from proceeding with an award of Sh1.9 billion tender to a rival firm for the erection of underground power transmission cables. China CAMC Engineering Co. Ltd says in court documents that unless the court intervenes […]
One Hon. Capt. Joe Musyimi MUTAMBU has caused ripples at the Kenya Electricity Company Ltd where he sits as Chairperson of the Board of Directors. Staff and suppliers of the agency have been left to wonder how a “Thug” of that level was even chosen to steer an organization of such magnitude within the Energy […]
Timelines initially set by the the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (KETRACO) for the completion of the Sh120 billion Kenya-Ethiopia electricity transmission line now appears to have been delayed. Already, the Ethiopian government is said to have petitioned the parliamentary committee on energy, seeking an immediate intervention following delays on the mega infrastructural project. Ethiopia says […]
