Updated 12 November 2026
The official way to search the EPRA electrical contractor register in Kenya is to use the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority’s public licence-register table, not a company letterhead or a social-media certificate post. On 12 November 2026 that table was linked from the Authority’s Electricity Registers page at epra.go.ke/electricity-registers. The official row is labelled “Licensed Electrical Contractors,” with the official description “List of licensed electrical contractors,” and a Download link that opens the public portal table.
On a count of all 20 official portal pages on 12 November 2026, the table printed “Showing 1-100 of 1,952 items” on the first page and “Showing 1,901-1,952 of 1,952 items” on the last page. Those 1,952 licence-number rows were all present, and all 1,952 licence numbers were unique. The Company Name column had 1,908 unique names: 44 names each appeared on two official rows. This guide does not paste the names. A later official register would supersede those counts.
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What the electrical contractor register is
The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority keeps a public register of licensed electrical contractors, separate from its register of registered electrical workers and from its power-undertaking register, which are listed on the same Electricity Registers page. It is also separate from the energy-auditor and solar-photovoltaic registers on the wider EPRA portal.
The official contractor table, checked on 12 November 2026, uses the columns Company Name, Licence Class, Licence Number, Town, Expiry Date and Licensed Technician. The Licensed Technician column prints a technician licence number, not a free-text name. This guide does not paste company names or technician numbers.
How to search the EPRA electrical contractor register in Kenya
To search the EPRA electrical contractor register in Kenya, open epra.go.ke/electricity-registers and use the official Download link for “Licensed Electrical Contractors.” That link opens the Authority’s public licence-register portal table. On 12 November 2026 the table ran to 20 official pages at 100 rows per page, with 52 rows on the last page.
The official class filter, checked the same day, offered Class C-2, Class C-1, Class B, Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-2(Lifts/Escalators) and Class A-2(Generators). You can also sort the official columns, including the licence number, the town and the expiry date, and you can move through the printed pages. Use the live table rather than a downloaded snapshot if you need the current row.
The same portal menu also includes a Verify Licence link. This guide does not treat a verification result as a substitute for the public contractor table counted on 12 November 2026, and it does not invent a result from a form that was not submitted.
What the November 2026 count includes, and what it omits
The counts below are from all 20 official pages of the EPRA licensed-electrical-contractors table, as served on 12 November 2026, not from a media republication and not from a Business Radar tool. They are the current official snapshot of the EPRA electrical contractor register in Kenya on those pages.
All 1,952 printed items were present as licence-number rows, and all 1,952 licence numbers were unique. 1,908 company names were unique: 1,864 names appeared once and 44 names each appeared on two official rows, with two different licence numbers. No company-name cell was blank. Official licence-number format was not uniform: 1,948 rows used an EPRA/EC/ prefix, and four official rows used a numeric-only licence number, one in Class A-1, two in Class C-1 and one in Class C-2.
Licence class, as printed, was Class C-2 on 601 rows, Class C-1 on 467 rows, Class A-1 on 453 rows, Class B on 383 rows, Class A-2 on 22 rows, Class A-2(Lifts/Escalators) on 15 rows, Class A-2 (Lifts/Escalators) on 6 rows, Class A-2(Generators) on 4 rows and Class A-2 (Generators) on 1 row. Those last four labels are official typography, including the space after “A-2” on 7 rows; this guide does not merge them into one class. No class cell was blank.
Town typography was not consistent. 193 official town cells were blank. Among the filled cells, Nairobi appeared as “NAIROBI” on 609 rows, “Nairobi” on 396 rows and “nairobi” on 48 rows. The remaining official town strings are not listed here. All 1,952 expiry dates were filled: 1,948 rows expired on 31 December 2026 and four rows expired on 31 December 2027.
The Licensed Technician column was filled on every row, but five official cells were printed “(not set).” Technician-number typography was not uniform: most rows used EPRA/EW/ in one official capitalisation or another, two official rows used an EPRA/SPVT/ prefix, and 1,904 technician numbers were unique. 44 technician numbers each appeared on two contractor rows, and one technician number appeared on five official contractor rows. This snapshot does not include a count of the registered-electrical-workers table or the power-undertaking table on the same official page. Do not treat a missing search result as proof that a later official row does not exist; search again on the live register.
How this sits with an electrician licence or an NCA contractor check
Searching the EPRA electrical contractor register in Kenya tells you whether a firm currently appears on the official licensed-electrical-contractors table. It does not tell you whether an individual holds an EPRA electrician or electrical-worker licence. That is a different official class, covered in the published EPRA electrician licence guide.
It also does not tell you whether a building contractor is on the National Construction Authority register. That is a different official body, covered in the published NCA contractor check. An EPRA electrical-contractor licence, an electrician licence and an NCA contractor registration are three different official questions.
What to do if the contractor is missing
If the company name or licence number you were given does not appear in the official table, check the exact spelling, try the official class filter, and look at more than the first page: this snapshot ran to 20 official pages. A later official row would supersede the 12 November 2026 count. If a certificate quotes a licence number without the EPRA/EC/ prefix, search the live table anyway; four official rows in this snapshot used a numeric-only licence number.
When you write, include the exact name as printed on the certificate, the licence number, the date you searched, and a copy of the document you were shown. The register answers a narrow question about the EPRA electrical contractor register in Kenya: is this firm on the current official table? It does not, on its own, approve an installation or replace an electrician or NCA contractor check.
Frequently asked questions
Where is the official EPRA electrical contractor register in Kenya?
On the Electricity Registers page at epra.go.ke/electricity-registers, checked on 12 November 2026, under the official label “Licensed Electrical Contractors.” The official Download link opens the public licence-register table, which ran to 20 pages in this snapshot.
How many licensed electrical contractors are on the register?
On a count of all 20 official portal pages on 12 November 2026, there were 1,952 unique licence numbers and 1,908 unique company names. 44 company names each appeared on two official rows. A later official register would supersede those counts.
Is a licensed electrical contractor the same as an electrician?
No. The contractor table is a firm-level official register. An EPRA electrician or electrical-worker licence is a different official class. The contractor table does include a Licensed Technician column, which prints a technician licence number on each firm row.
Does this confirm an NCA contractor registration?
No. The EPRA electrical contractor register in Kenya is not the National Construction Authority contractor register. Use the published NCA contractor check when that question matters.
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