KPLC is the only Company that diverts all it operational costs to the consumer. Have u ever looked at their bill keenly? Items on the list includes, Foreign exchange adjustments, fuel cost adjustments etc, which company is not affected by the foreign exchange in Kenya and with the current dwindling of the shilling value against the dollar? Do all companies divert the costs to the consumers?  Soon you will see staff costs and inflation costs on the bill. I think for them all the money we pay is net profit. I just hope that one day a miracle will happen and there will be another power provider or the wind and solar technologies are well developed to large scale and we forget about them. That day they will learn just like Telekom did. For now we have to bear the costs.

These prohibitive costs of installation and consumption are the cause of lack of power installation in many schools making it impossible to use computers even if they were provided for free.

James



Which company On 6/23/2011 11:08 AM, Gituma Nturibi wrote:
As I watched the re-branding of KPLC to Kenya power I asked myself a question which I've asked before

Why do we pay them to get connections and transformers closer to us? i.e the Umeme pamoja scheme. Where do customers pay for a service to be brought to them? I mean their business is selling power. Do safaricom and the other networks ask us to  pa to set up base stations, I dunno the exact cost but I'm sure it's much more than the cost of a transformer and 2km of power lines! Isn't a business supposed to spend money on infrastructure? The mobile networks spend billions every year in expansion. Kenya Airways spends billions to acquire new aircraft to fill with passengers etc.

I think this is just an antiquated business model back from the parastatal days. Hey even their sister company Kengen does not ask us to pay for new generators...

Just thinking...

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