Kenya Power offers a variety of easy options for paying your electricity bills, with payments arriving the same day.
Here are some of the ways to purchase your electricity tokens using MPesa Paybill.
It is advisable to use the paybill numbers 888888 and 888880 for postpaid and prepaid bill payments respectively.
Paying your Postpaid Electricity Bill with M-Pesa (Safaricom)
- Select “Pay Bill” from the M-Pesa menu.
- Enter the Kenya Power business number 888 888.
- Enter your new Kenya Power account number e.g. 123456.
- Enter the amount you wish to pay which should be between Shs. 100 and Shs.35,000.
- Enter your M-Pesa PIN.
- Confirm that all details are correct.
- You will receive a confirmation of the transaction via SMS.
How to Buy Kenya Power (KPLC) Prepaid Tokens via M-PESA Paybill Number 888880.
- Go to Safaricom SIM Tool Kit, select M-PESA menu, select “Lipa na M-PESA“
- Select “Pay Bill“
- Select “Enter Business no.“, Enter KPLC’s Lipa na M-PESA PayBill Number 888880 and press “OK”
- Select “Enter Account no.“, Enter your KPLC Prepaid Meter Number (e.g. 0100 xxxx xxxx x) press “OK”
- “Enter Amount“, between KSh100 and 35,000 and press “OK”
- Enter your M-PESA PIN and press “OK”
- Confirm all the details are correct and press “OK”
- M-PESA HAKIKISHA, You will get a notification with the intended recipient’s name e.g. “Pay Kenya Power KSh1,000.00 for Account 0100 xxxx xxxx x Press 1 within 20 seconds to STOP this transaction.” To stop a wrong transaction, Enter “1” and press Send within 20 seconds. Pressing “Cancel” will complete the transaction.
- You will receive a confirmation SMS from M-PESA.
- KPLC will then generate prepaid token valid for your meter and send via SMS.
How to Buy Kenya Power (KPLC) Prepaid Tokens via Equitel
- Select Eazzy Pay from your Equitel menu
- Select Pay Bill from Eazzy Pay.
Choose the bank account number to pay from e.g.0123456789102
Select business number – KPLC Tokens - Enter your KPLC Prepaid Meter Number (e.g. 37168917674) press OK
- Enter the amount you wish to pay which should be between Shs. 100 and Shs.500,000.
- Enter your Equitel PIN and press OK
- Confirm that all details are correct by pressing 1 OK
- You will receive a text confirmation of the transaction from Equity bank.
- KPLC will then generate prepaid token valid for your meter and send via SMS.
Paying your Electricity Bill with Equitel (Sim Tool Kit)
- Select Eazzy Pay from your Equitel menu
- Select Pay Bill from Eazzy Pay.
Choose the bank account number to pay from e.g.0123456789102
Select business number – KPLC Bills (Post Paid) - Enter your new Kenya Power meter number e.g. 2831172 or 3436980.
- Enter the amount you wish to pay which should be between Shs.100 and Shs.500,000.
- Enter your Equitel PIN and press OK
- Confirm that all details are correct by pressing 1 OK.
- You will receive a text confirmation of the transaction from Equity bank.