The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) has unveiled draft regulations, aimed at streamlining Kenya's growing biofuels industry, marking a major step toward achieving the country's goal of a 100 percent transition to clean energy by 2030.
EPRA Managing Director Daniel Kiptoo, in a speech read on his behalf by Deputy Director for Renewable Energy Eng.
Mungai Kihara during a public participation forum in Kisumu, said the proposed Energy (Biofuels) Regulations, 2025 will provide a legal framework for production, blending, distribution, and sale of biofuels across Kenya. "The regulations are intended to promote fair business practices, ensure quality and safety across the biofuels value chain, support environmental sustainability, and enable the collection of accurate data for evidence-based policymaking," Kiptoo said.
He said the draft regulations come at a time when Kenya was ramping up efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and reduce its dependency on fossil fuels highlighting the successful initiatives such as the ENI project in Makueni County, where an Italian oil firm was extracting vegetable oil from castor seeds for export to its refinery in Italy.