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State pushes for shared cooking gas facilities to cut costs, boost access

Cooking gas cylinders at Heshima trading centre in Nakuru. [File, Standard 

The Ministry of Energy and Petroleum is pushing for the conversion of privately owned cooking gas handling facilities into common user infrastructure as part of its broader strategy to drive up Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) usage in the country.

The initiative, which will be regulated by the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (Epra), aims to open up existing LPG storage and import facilities to multiple industry players.

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