Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority is reworking on the solar water heater regulations to omit residential homeowners following growing public outcry. A lot of these residential homeowners lack the capacity to set up solar water heating systems,” he said. EPRA, however, dropped the water heating law requiring building owners to install solar water heating systems after parliament bowed to public pressure in 2018 to repeal the law. In 2018, Parliament annulled the punitive fine on solar water heating systems on account of there being a contravention to the section of the Statutory Instruments Act (SI Act). The annulled law that imposed a Sh1 million fine or one-year jail term for real estate developers and homeowners who failed to install solar water heating systems.

Source: The Star January 26, 2020 00:56 UTC