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Mr. Zachary Ayieko CEO

 

The provision of high quality and affordable power connectivity to all Kenyans and the achievement of high standards of customer service through community participation will underwrite long-term sustainability and socio-economic development.

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Rural Electrification Authority, Kenya

Connects The Countryside

The Rural Electrification Authority (REA) is one of the youngest State corporations in Kenya, having been established under Section 66 of the Energy Act (No 12 of 2006) as a result of the Government’s Sessional Paper No. 4 of 2004 on Energy.

 

The establishment of the Authority was based on the realisation that there was still very low energy connectivity in most of rural Kenya that required urgent attention in order to achieve the goals of the Economic Recovery Strategy formulated in 2003.

 

The Authority was therefore created and became operational as a body corporate in 2007 with the objective of accelerating the pace of rural electrification, a function previously undertaken by the Ministry of Energy. Statistics on the provision and access of electricity have tended to paint a grim picture of Kenya’s rural areas, which for many years have been largely marginalised in critical infrastructural facilities such as electricity, roads, health centres, water and sanitation.

Affordable power connectivity

The level of connectivity in Kenya has remained low with over 80 per cent of the rural population remaining without electricity. REA estimates that only 12 per cent of the rural population is connected to the na tional electricity grid despite the fact that the Rural Electrification Program has been running since 1973.

 
REA’s main mandate is to accelerate the pace of rural electrification in order to promote sustainable socio-economic development. Under the Energy Act, REA is mandated to undertake the following functions:

 

1. Manage the Rural Electrification Programme Fund. Develop and update the rural electrification master plan. It shall also promote the use of renewable sources of energy, including small hydros, wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, hybrid systems and oil-fired components taking into account specific needs of certain areas, including the potential for using electricity for irrigation and in support of off-farm income-generating activities.

 
2. Provide sufficient supplies of energy to the majority of Kenya’s population through the Rural Electrification Programme. This has become a priority for the Government as it strives to fulfil the lofty goals of its Vision 2030 socio-economic development blueprint.

 

3 . Implement and source for additional funds for rural electrification in order to ensure that the programme meets its intended goals.

 
4. Manage the delineation, tendering and award of contracts for licences and permits for rural electrification projects and services.

 

Long-term sustainability

The primary goal of Vision 2030 is to transform Kenya’s economy from a poor agriculture-based one to a middle-level industrialised country within the next two decades. Elelctricity has been identified as one of the critical drivers of this vision and the creation of REA means that Kenya is now poised to ensure that the majority of the people can be fully integrated into the national development effort through the incremental provision of affordable electricity to the rural areas. REA is determined to ensure that no part of the country will be without electric power in the next two decades.

 

The CEO Mr. Zachary Ayieko holds the view that for Vision 2030 to be attained all Kenyans must have electricity in order to improve their quality of life. “We intend to connect all public facilities by 2012 and ensure that every kenyan has elelctricity by 2030 .,” says he. A rural electrification masterplan undertaken by REA in 2008 identified 20,000 public facilities without electricity. By June 2010 a total of 12,094 or 60% of these facilities which include secondary schools, markets and health centres had been electrified.

 

Currently, Ministry of Energy statistics indicate that three out of four poor people live in rural areas. Many essential institutions such as public secondary schools and health centres do not have access to electric power.

Socio-economic development

Our Mission


To efficiently provide high quality and affordable electricity connectivity in all rural areas and to achieve high standards of customer service through advancing community participation to ensure longterm sustainability and socio-economic development

 

Our Vision


To be the provider of quality and affordable electricity to all in the rural areas.

 

Our Motto

Lighting up rural Kenya

 

Our Values


Professional Integrity and Excellence: Our staff shall carry out their duties with integrity and excellence, in a professional manner and always seek to improve the professional standards and ethics required by respective professional duties

High quality

Customer Focus: Our staff shall perform their duties with total commitment and deliver timely quality services to their customers in order to build and maintain public confidence in service delivery

 

Team Work: Our staff shall remain open and proactive in identifying any issues and recommendations that contribute to empowering them and enhance their motivation to serve the people of Kenya as a team

 

Respect for People: Our staff will at all times treat other people with utmost respect, courtesy and fairness in their service delivery to the people.

 

Passionate: Our staff shall be driven by the passion of ensuring that every Kenyan gets electricity.

 

Commitment to Staff Welfare: The REA Board of Directors will provide a conducive working environment to staff in order to ensure efficient service delivery to customers.

 

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