Kenya Electric Power Company on Tuesday released the news that the local cable manufacturing capacity of only about 30% of the power companies to meet the demand, so if this situation is not improved, Kenya Electric Power imported cables to meet the needs of power systems.
According to reports, in order to encourage local enterprises, Kenya Electric Power Company to the domestic cable and accessories manufacturers to purchase large quantities of goods. However, according to preliminary statistics, due to technical level and backward equipment and other factors, domestic producers of Kenya Electric Power Company to meet the demand for less than 30%, greatly affected the Kenya Electric Power Company project progress.
At the same time, the Kenyan government plans to achieve by 2017 more than 70% of households electricity, it is learned that to achieve this goal requires 24055 km cable, 139181 km wire, 124.1 million meter box and 107.1 million poles. This means that the future, Kenya needs a lot of cables and related accessories to improve the transmission system and achieve the last mile connection.