Updated 12 November 2026
The official way to search the EPRA electrical worker register in Kenya is to use the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority’s public licence-register table, not a wallet card 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 “Registered Electrical Workers,” with the official description “List of registered electrical workers,” and a Download link that opens the public portal table.
On a count of all 44 official portal pages on 12 November 2026, the table printed “Showing 1 – 100 of 4353 total electrical workers” on the first page and “Showing 4301 – 4353 of 4353 total electrical workers” on the last page. Those 4,353 licence-number rows were all present, and all 4,353 licence numbers were unique. The official “Licencee Name” column had 4,160 unique names: 3,977 names appeared once, 174 names each appeared on two official rows, eight names each appeared on three official rows, and one name appeared on four official rows. This guide does not paste the names. A later official register would supersede those counts.
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What the electrical worker register is
The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority keeps a public register of registered electrical workers, separate from its register of licensed electrical contractors 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 workers table, checked on 12 November 2026, uses the columns Licencee Name, Licence Class, Licence Number, Town and Expiry Date. The official column heading is spelled “Licencee.” The portal page title on that day was “Electrical-Workers.” This guide does not paste names.
How to search the EPRA electrical worker register in Kenya
To search the EPRA electrical worker register in Kenya, open epra.go.ke/electricity-registers and use the official Download link for “Registered Electrical Workers.” That link opens the Authority’s public licence-register portal table. On 12 November 2026 the table ran to 44 official pages at 100 rows per page, with 53 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), Class A-2 (Generators), Class A-2(Lifts/Generators) and Class A-2(Generators). Those last labels are official typography, including the space after “A-2” on some options and the missing space on others; this guide does not merge them. 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 workers 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 44 official pages of the EPRA registered-electrical-workers 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 worker register in Kenya on those pages. The official Showing line uses “4353” without a thousands comma, and puts spaces around the hyphen; this guide quotes that typography and uses 4,353 in the running text.
All 4,353 printed items were present as licence-number rows, and all 4,353 licence numbers were unique. 4,160 names were unique in the official Licencee Name column: 3,977 names appeared once, 174 names each appeared on two official rows, eight names each appeared on three official rows, and one name appeared on four official rows, with a different licence number on each of those rows. No name cell was blank. Official licence-number format used an EPRA/EW/ prefix on every row, but the official digit string after that prefix was not of one length: 5 digits on 3,053 rows, 6 digits on 743 rows, 7 digits on 556 rows, and 8 digits on one row.
Licence class, as printed, was Class C-2 on 1,814 rows, Class C-1 on 1,270 rows, Class A-1 on 606 rows, Class B on 559 rows, Class A-2 (Lifts/Escalators) on 55 rows, Class A-2 (Generators) on 27 rows, Class A-2 on 15 rows, Class A-2(Generators) on 5 rows, Class A-2(Lifts/Escalators) on 1 row and Class A-2(Lifts/Generators) on 1 row. Those last six labels are official typography, including the space after “A-2” on 82 rows and the missing space on 7 rows; this guide does not merge them into one class. No class cell was blank.
Town typography was not consistent. 257 official town cells were blank, and 12 official cells were printed “(not set).” Among the 4,084 filled cells that were not “(not set),” there were 759 unique official town strings. Nairobi appeared as “Nairobi” on 714 rows, “NAIROBI” on 658 rows, “nairobi” on 116 rows and “NAIrobi” on 1 row. The remaining official town strings are not listed here. All 4,353 expiry dates were filled: 4,307 rows expired on 31 December 2026 and 46 rows expired on 31 December 2027.
This snapshot does not include a count of the licensed-electrical-contractors table or the power-undertaking table on the same official page, and it is not a count of the solar-photovoltaic or energy-auditor registers on the wider EPRA portal. 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 licence or an NCA check
Searching the EPRA electrical worker register in Kenya tells you whether a person currently appears on the official registered-electrical-workers table. It does not tell you whether a firm holds an EPRA electrical-contractor licence. That is a different official class, listed on a different table on the same Electricity Registers page. The published EPRA electrician licence guide covers the application route, which is a different question from this public-register search.
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-worker registration, an electrical-contractor licence and an NCA contractor registration are three different official questions.
What to do if the worker is missing
If the 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 44 official pages. A later official row would supersede the 12 November 2026 count. If a certificate quotes a licence number with a different number of digits after the EPRA/EW/ prefix, search the live table anyway; official digit strings in this snapshot ran from five to eight digits.
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 worker register in Kenya: is this person on the current official table? It does not, on its own, approve an installation or replace an electrical-contractor or NCA contractor check.
Frequently asked questions
Where is the official EPRA electrical worker register in Kenya?
On the Electricity Registers page at epra.go.ke/electricity-registers, checked on 12 November 2026, under the official label “Registered Electrical Workers.” The official Download link opens the public licence-register table, which ran to 44 pages in this snapshot.
How many electrical workers are on the register?
On a count of all 44 official portal pages on 12 November 2026, there were 4,353 unique licence numbers and 4,160 unique names in the official Licencee Name column. 183 names each appeared on more than one official row. A later official register would supersede those counts.
Is a registered electrical worker the same as a licensed electrical contractor?
No. They are listed on two official tables on the same Electricity Registers page. The workers table is a person-level official register. The contractor table is a different official class for licensed electrical contractor firms.
Does this confirm an NCA contractor registration?
No. The EPRA electrical worker 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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