Power Restored after Outage hits Nairobi and Parts of Kenya

Kenya Power and Lighting Company Ltd restored power that had hit  Nairobi, Central, Rift Valley, Western and Coastal regions on Wednesday after a major power outage Tuesday evening.

KPLC had said a technical hitch emanating from their transmission system had caused the power outage in various parts of the country.

The areas affected included parts of Nairobi, Mount Kenya, Nyanza, Western, Rift Valley and Coast regions, according to the company.

Energy Cabinet secretary Charles Keter said the government will spend Ksh 23.7 billion to upgrade the Dandora Sub-station to a new digitised substation to be commissioned in the next two weeks and will be funded by the Finish government.

“The fault was detected at Ndumberi where one of the electrical conductors tripped causing short circuit after losing 250 megawatts,” said Keter.

“The new line will be connected to Dandora substation via Athi RiverEmbakasi which is under construction
after the underground cables were vandalised at Mlolongo,” he added.

“Our power supply with Uganda is interconnected and when we lost more than 250 megawatts, Uganda, which uses 400 megawatts across the country, was affected,” he noted.

The Company serves over 6182282 customers according to its financial year results 2016/17.