@Aki, Most people in KE do not use the electric cookers, but gas fired cookers with electric opens. I think the power consumption of electric cookers would be so high in Kenya due to high energy costs. In some countries, it makes sense to use electric cookers as electricity is cheaper than LPG. And the electronics and power systems of most home appliances has improved so much in the last couple of years that I would be surprised any of the items you mention exceed 1.5 KVA. While heat generating appliances like electric irons and water heaters consume a huge amount of power, for some of these it is for a short duration of time, and once they achieve the optimal thermal heat this reduces drastically. Washers and dryers nowadays consume very little power. Same as LCD television sets and computer. And talking of about import 500 MW of power from Ethiopia and an infrastructure cost of KES 64 B, it may be wiser to poor these resources and developing geothermal and wind power. Already, the Turkana Wind Power Project will produce around 300 MW, I am sure with more investment we can easily produce more than 500 MW with a combination of wind and geothermal. The trick with relying on other nation for critical services like power is that it places Kenya in a precarious position in regards to relationships with neighboring countries, Imagine if Mohamed El Bashir had a button he can press and send the whole of Kenya in to darkness? If relationship with Addis were to sour, the first casualty would be disconnection of power, affecting industry, manufacturing and domestic. May be we should pass a law of what we can't import from our neighbors, like military services and may be even power.