Updated 12 November 2026
The official way to search the EPRA power undertaking register in Kenya is to use the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority’s public licence-register table, not a company brochure 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 “Power Undertaking Register,” with the official description “Register of power undertakings,” and a Download link that opens the public portal table.
On a count of all four official portal pages on 12 November 2026, the table printed “Showing 1-100 of 384 items” on the first page and “Showing 301-384 of 384 items” on the last page. Those 384 rows were all present. They covered 124 unique company names, and official licence numbers were not unique. This guide does not paste the names. A later official register would supersede those counts.
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What the power undertaking register is
The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority keeps a public register of electric power undertakings, listed on the same Electricity Registers page as licensed electrical contractors and registered electrical workers. It is a different official table from those two lists, and it is also different from the energy-auditor and solar-photovoltaic registers on the wider EPRA portal.
The official table, checked on 12 November 2026, uses the columns Company Name, Licence Number, Licence Type, Town and Expiry Date. Every official Licence Type cell in this snapshot printed “Electric Power Undertaking Business Licence.” This guide does not paste company names or licence numbers.
How to search the EPRA power undertaking register in Kenya
To search the EPRA power undertaking register in Kenya, open epra.go.ke/electricity-registers and use the official Download link for “Power Undertaking Register.” That link opens the Authority’s public licence-register portal table. On 12 November 2026 the table ran to four official pages at 100 rows per page, with 84 rows on the last page.
You can sort the official columns, including the licence number, the town and the expiry date, and you can move through the printed pages. Because official licence numbers in this snapshot were not all unique, search by company name as well as by licence number, and read every official row that matches. 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 undertaking 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 four official pages of the EPRA power-undertaking 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 power undertaking register in Kenya on those pages.
All 384 printed items were present as official rows. The Company Name column had 124 unique names and no blank cells. 84 names appeared on one official row, and 40 names appeared on more than one official row, including one name on 58 official rows. That is official typography of the current table, not a reason invented by this guide.
Official licence numbers were not a unique key in this snapshot. Five official licence-number cells were printed “(not set).” The other 379 rows had 327 unique licence numbers: 17 of those numbers appeared on more than one official row, and nine of those 17 appeared against more than one company name. Number typography was not uniform. 68 official rows used an EPRA/PUL/ prefix; the other 311 numbered rows used other official formats. Do not treat a missing EPRA/PUL/ prefix as proof that a row is unofficial; both forms were on the live table.
Town typography was not consistent. 25 official town cells were blank and one official cell was printed “(not set).” Among the filled cells, Nairobi appeared as “Nairobi” on 125 rows, “NAIROBI” on 66 rows and “NaIROBI” on 2 rows. The remaining official town strings are not listed here. All 384 expiry dates were filled. The earliest official date was 5 December 2027 and the latest was 17 July 2063. The years with the most official rows were 2032 (57 rows) and 2041 (51 rows). 16 official rows expired in 2059 and one official row expired in 2063. This guide does not invent a reason for those later official dates.
This snapshot does not include a recount of the licensed-electrical-contractors table or the registered-electrical-workers 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 electrical contractor or an NCA check
Searching the EPRA power undertaking register in Kenya tells you whether a firm currently appears on the official power-undertaking table. It does not tell you whether the same firm is on the licensed-electrical-contractors table, and it does not tell you whether an individual holds an EPRA electrician licence. That electrician class is 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. A power-undertaking licence, an electrical-contractor licence and an NCA registration are three different official questions.
What to do if the undertaking is missing
If the company name or licence number you were given does not appear in the official table, check the exact spelling, look at more than the first page — this snapshot ran to four official pages — and search by name as well as by number, because official licence numbers were not all unique. A later official row would supersede the 12 November 2026 count. If a certificate quotes a number without an EPRA/PUL/ prefix, search the live table anyway; most official rows in this snapshot used other official formats, and five official cells were printed “(not set).”
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 power undertaking register in Kenya: is this firm on the current official table? It does not, on its own, approve a generation or distribution project, or replace an electrician, electrical-contractor or NCA contractor check.
Frequently asked questions
Where is the official EPRA power undertaking register in Kenya?
On the Electricity Registers page at epra.go.ke/electricity-registers, checked on 12 November 2026, under the official label “Power Undertaking Register.” The official Download link opens the public licence-register table, which ran to four pages in this snapshot.
How many power undertakings are on the register?
On a count of all four official portal pages on 12 November 2026, there were 384 official rows and 124 unique company names. Official licence numbers were not unique: 327 unique numbers on 379 numbered rows, plus five official “(not set)” cells. A later official register would supersede those counts.
Is a power undertaking the same as an electrical contractor?
No. They are listed on two official tables on the same Electricity Registers page. The power-undertaking table is a licence table for electric power undertaking businesses. The contractor table is a different official class.
Does this confirm an NCA contractor registration?
No. The EPRA power undertaking 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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