{
  "id": 13536990,
  "title": "EPRA electricity charges: How October increase will hit Kenyan households and businesses",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/10/epra-electricity-charges-how-october-increase-will-hit-kenyan",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-10T20:58:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "People Daily Kenya",
    "slug": "people-daily-kenya",
    "url": "https://peopledaily.digital/business/epra-electricity-charges-how-october-increase-will-hit-kenyan-households-and-businesses"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Kenyan households and businesses face an additional electricity cost of Ksh4.10 per unit under EPRA’s October 2026 adjustments, adding pressure to budgets as annual inflation rises to 6.8 per cent, driven largely by food, transport and other household expenses. The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) announced three electricity cost adjustments for October 2026, including […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}