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How to Buy Kenya Power (KPLC) Prepaid Tokens via M-PESA

by Biashara Kenya

Kenya Power (KPLC) M-Pesa paybill number for Postpaid bill payments is 888880

Kenya Power owns and operates most of the electricity transmission and distribution system in Kenya and sells electricity to over 6,761,090 million by end of June 2018.

The Procedure for buying your KPLC tokens via M-Pesa are as follows -:

  1. Go to Safaricom SIM Tool Kit, select M-PESA menu, select “Lipa na M-PESA
  2. Select “Pay Bill
  3. Select “Enter Business no.“, Enter KPLC’s Lipa na M-PESA PayBill Number 888880 and press “OK”
  4. Select “Enter Account no.“, Enter your KPLC Prepaid Meter Number (e.g. 0100 xxxx xxxx x) press “OK”
  5. Enter Amount“, between KSh100 and 35,000 and press “OK”
  6. Enter your M-PESA PIN and press “OK”
  7. Confirm all the details are correct and press “OK”
  8. 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.
  9. You will receive a confirmation SMS from M-PESA.
  10. KPLC will then generate prepaid token valid for your meter and send via SMS.

Call the Contact Centre hotline numbers 95551 or 0703070707 or 0732170170 for service-related enquiries.

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