In Summary
- The Energy (Energy Management) Regulations, 2025, are a cornerstone of Kenya’s strategy to enhance energy efficiency across commercial, industrial, and institutional sectors.
- The rules aim to promote energy-saving practices in industries, businesses, and institutions that use a lot of energy.
- The regulations aim to minimize energy losses, reduce operational costs, and lower carbon emissions.
The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) has praised Isuzu East Africa Limited and Kenya Breweries Limited (KBL) for being the first companies to fully comply with the new Energy (Energy Management) Regulations, 2025.
The two firms have saved a total of Ksh.26 million through better energy use. The rules, which were officially introduced in February 2025, aim to promote energy-saving practices in industries, businesses, and institutions that use a lot of energy.
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Isuzu East Africa saved 128,818 kilowatt-hours of electricity, cutting down costs by Ksh.5.6 million. KBL’s Kisumu plant made even bigger savings 657,584 kilowatt-hours of electricity saving Ksh.20.6 million each year.
These achievements came after both companies followed several key steps one of them being carrying out detailed energy audits to find areas of improvement, created and followed clear energy management plans, kept records of how much energy they used and produced and appointed trained energy managers and formed teams to guide the process.
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Under the new rules, any facility using more than 180,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity and thermal energy each year must do a full energy audit every four years.
This recognition supports President William Ruto’s call for better energy use across all sectors.
