COUNTY NEWS Kenya Power Says Engineers Working To Identify Hitch As Nationwide Outage Reported
By Anthony kioko - 2020-05-09 15:27:42 - [General]
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 9 – Kenya Power Company has attributed a nationwide outage reported at 5.49am on Saturday to a system disturbance on the transmission network.
The utility firm said its engineers were working to identify the hitch in efforts to restore power supply to the national grid.
“Our engineers are working to identify and address the hitch, towards restoring normal electricity supply,” the utility firm stated in a brief statement Saturday morning.
The outage comes at a time the energy ministry has announced an upsurge in water levels in key hydroelectricity dams as a result of heavy rains and flooding in parts of the country.
Energy Cabinet Secretary Charles Keter Wednesday said Masinga which supports power production at the Masinga Hydroelectric Power Station had exceeded its reservoir capacity reaching a historical 1,057.9 meters above the sea level.
“The maximum reservoir is 1,056.5. You can see it is above and therefore it is a serious issue. We’re telling the people who are downstream in Garissa all the way to Tana River to move,” he said.
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