Garissa Township MP Aden Duale has sponsored a Bill in Parliament which if passed will see the cost of electricity go up by at least 40 percent.
The Bill mainly seeks to increase energy costs as the country struggle to pay debts accruing from loans the governments have been borrowing in the international market.
The recent of such loan was when the Treasury acquired a Sh202 billion bond that added the impetus to recent worries over the rate at which the country is accumulating debt even as the economy struggles to remain running efficiently.
Duale said it was necessary for energy costs to go up as the cost of acquiring crude oil in the international market continues to rise.
Kenya does not produce power that is sufficient to run all domestic scores as well as industrial business and in most time the electricity generated to run the economy is produced by diesel generators.
Kenyans are already grappling with high power costs following the adjustment of electricity charges to re-pay power charges carried forward last year.
The business sector last week claimed the manufacturing sector is already feeling the pinch of high energy charges saying manufacturers may be forced to adjust the prices for the various products they produce to be able to run smoothly.