Nairobi, Jan. 8 -- MPs have revived the push for the establishment of an autonomous office charged with procuring new independent power producers (IPPs) in a fresh reforms push targeting to lower the cost of power.

The parliamentary Departmental Committee on Energy wants the Energy ministry to establish an IPP Office within three years.

"The Cabinet secretary for the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum, in conjunction with the Cabinet secretary for the National Treasury, to initiate the formation of an IPP Office within 36 months upon the adoption of this report," said the committee.

The committee, chaired by Mwala MP Vincent Musyoka, made the report after a benchmarking tour of South Africa last October.

It observed that South Africa es...