Energy and Petroleum CS Opiyo Wandayi flanked by Kenya Power Alex Wachira the Principal Secretary, Ministry of Energy and Petroleum, State Department of Energy and EPRA Director General Daniel Kiptoo Bargoria media brief following a nationwide blackout. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]
In the last week, the country experienced two major power outages, crippling not just businesses and households but essential services providers such as hospitals.
It is not the first time that the country has been thrown into darkness. Major outages have become the norm in recent years.
On Friday, a widespread outage was caused by what Kenya Power said was the tripping of the 220kV Loiyangalani transmission at the Suswa substation followed by a failure on the Ethiopia-Kenya interconnector, leading to a partial grid collapse.
A similar nationwide outage occurred on August 30, which was attributed to a breakdown at the Suswa substation.
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