Updated 12 November 2026
The official way to search the EPRA solar PV contractor 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 Renewable Energy Registers page at epra.go.ke/renewable-energy-registers. The official row is labelled “Solar Photovoltaic Contractor Register,” with the official description “List of registered solar photovoltaic contractors,” and a Download link that opens the public portal table.
On a count of all 12 official portal pages on 12 November 2026, the table printed “Showing 1-100 of 1,115 items.” on the first page and “Showing 1,101-1,115 of 1,115 items.” on the last page. Those 1,115 licence-number rows were all present, and all 1,115 licence numbers were unique. The Company Name column had 712 unique names: 395 names appeared once, 231 names each appeared on two official rows, and 86 names each appeared on three official rows. This guide does not paste the names. A later official register would supersede those counts.
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What the solar PV contractor register is
The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority keeps a public register of registered solar photovoltaic contractors, separate from its solar-photovoltaic technicians register on the same Renewable Energy Registers page, and separate from the electrical-worker, electrical-contractor and power-undertaking registers on the Electricity Registers page. The portal page title on 12 November 2026 was “Solar-Contractors.”
The official contractor table, checked that day, uses the columns Licence Number, Company Name, Licence Class, Licencee Name, Status and Expiry Date. The official personal-name column is spelled “Licencee.” This guide does not paste company names or licencee names, and it does not invent a town column: this table had no official Town field in the snapshot.
How to search the EPRA solar PV contractor register in Kenya
To search the EPRA solar PV contractor register in Kenya, open epra.go.ke/renewable-energy-registers and use the official Download link for “Solar Photovoltaic Contractor Register.” That link opens the Authority’s public licence-register portal table. On 12 November 2026 the table ran to 12 official pages at 100 rows per page, with 15 rows on the last page.
The official class filter, checked the same day, offered Class C1, Class V1 and Class V2. Those official labels have no hyphen after the letter, unlike the Class C-1 typography on the electrical registers. You can also sort the official columns, including the licence number, the status 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 12 official pages of the Solar Photovoltaic Contractor Register 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 solar PV contractor register in Kenya on those pages. The official Showing line uses a hyphen with no spaces, a thousands comma in “1,115,” and a full stop after “items.”
All 1,115 printed items were present as licence-number rows, and all 1,115 licence numbers were unique. 712 company names were unique: 395 appeared once, 231 each appeared on two official rows, and 86 each appeared on three official rows, with a different licence number on each of those rows. No company-name cell was blank. The official Licencee Name column had 43 cells printed “(not set)” and 681 unique filled names; this guide does not paste those names.
Official licence-number typography was not uniform. 1,112 rows used an EPRA/SPVC/ prefix, one official row used an EPRA/SPVM/ prefix, and two official rows used an ERC/SPVC/ prefix (ERC/SPVC/00539 and ERC/SPVC/00545). Licence class, as printed, was Class C1 on 529 rows, Class V1 on 364 rows and Class V2 on 222 rows. No class cell was blank.
Status, as printed, was Renewed on 615 rows, Licence Collected on 373 rows and Licence Collection on 127 rows. “Licence Collected” and “Licence Collection” are official labels in this snapshot; this guide does not merge them. All 1,115 expiry dates were filled: 137 rows expire in 2026, 975 in 2027 and three in 2028. The earliest official expiry in the snapshot was 12 November 2026, the same date as the count, and the latest was 17 September 2028.
This snapshot does not include a count of the solar-photovoltaic technicians table on the same official page, and it is not a count of the electrical or energy-auditor registers. 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 solar PV contractor register in Kenya tells you whether a firm currently appears on the official solar-photovoltaic-contractor table. It does not tell you whether a person is on the official solar-photovoltaic-technicians table, which is a different official class on the same Renewable Energy Registers page. It also does not tell you whether someone 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. A solar-photovoltaic 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 12 official pages. A later official row would supersede the 12 November 2026 count. If a certificate quotes a number with an ERC/SPVC/ or EPRA/SPVM/ prefix, search the live table anyway; those official prefixes appeared in this snapshot alongside the more common EPRA/SPVC/ form.
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 solar PV contractor register in Kenya: is this firm on the current official table? It does not, on its own, approve an installation or replace a technician, electrician or NCA contractor check.
Frequently asked questions
Where is the official EPRA solar PV contractor register in Kenya?
On the Renewable Energy Registers page at epra.go.ke/renewable-energy-registers, checked on 12 November 2026, under the official label “Solar Photovoltaic Contractor Register.” The official Download link opens the public licence-register table, which ran to 12 pages in this snapshot.
How many solar PV contractors are on the register?
On a count of all 12 official portal pages on 12 November 2026, there were 1,115 unique licence numbers and 712 unique company names. 317 company names each appeared on more than one official row. A later official register would supersede those counts.
Is a solar PV contractor the same as a solar PV technician?
No. They are listed on two official tables on the same Renewable Energy Registers page. The contractor table is a firm-level official register. The technicians table is a different official class.
Does this confirm an NCA contractor registration?
No. The EPRA solar PV 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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