as noted in chapter information on grid connections can help identify taxpayers and businesses for tax collection purposes while the availability of electricity for productive use could reinforce the incentives for microenterprises to join the formal sector wider access to electricity can also help unlock the development potential of icts which play a growing role in financial inclusion through mobile money systems like kenya s mpesa and in disseminating market information and knowledge of productive technologies the economic viability of investments in electricity generation transmission and distribution is highly dependent on an adequate level of demand