Time flies with great content! Renew in to keep enjoying all our premium content.
Prime
Kenya Power outages surge to 10.14 hours on ageing grid
Kenya has been plunged into at least eight countrywide blackouts since 2020, highlighting the deepening woes blamed on a host of factors notably ageing transmission lines.
It took Kenya Power an average of 10.14 hours to connect its millions of customers back to the national grid after a blackout in the year to June, new data by the sector regulator shows, underlining the shaky State of the utility’s ageing distribution system.
Data by the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (Epra) shows that power outages surged to an average of 10.14 hours a month in the year that ended June, up from 8.37 hours a year ago.
