#Kenya Power

The African Development Bank (AfDB) wants Kenya and Tanzania to speed up the signing of three key agreements.

KenGen is seeking to establish a local manufacturing plant for transformers and motors to diversify its revenues that mostly come from the sale of electricity to Kenya Power.

Kenya Power has reported a 46 percent increase in cases of transformer vandalism in the past financial year, impacting 242 transformers compared to the previous year’s 165.

Kenya Power now says it will resolve the challenge of transformer backlog in the country within two months.

Kenya, Nairobi: Kenyans are looking at living with a prolonged power blackout amid reports that Kenya Power has been hit by a shortage of transformers.

Kenya: Criminals are holding consumers ransom in Kenya by causing frequent blackouts to scam unsuspecting citizens.

Kenya, Murang’a: Criminal gangs have vandalised transformers worth $35,874 (Sh4 M) in three months in Murang’a county.

Kenya Power to fund the metering of all its transformers to track electricity system loss through theft and transmission that costs the monopoly billions per year.

Kenya Power has installed a 2.5 MVA transformer at the Garissa substation to enhance its capacity and ensure enough supply to the town of Garissa.

Kenya, Nairobi: After many parts of the country suffered a six-hour blackout at the start of the year due to a technical fault in the central fields of Dandora-Nairobi North, Kenya’s Energy Cabinet Secretary, Charles Keter, revealed the steps to be taken to help prevent such widespread outages in the future.

Kenya’s national power distributor, Kenya Power, has launched a network upgrade programme aiming to provide better power supply to industrial consumers.

India: Toshiba Transmission & Distribution Systems India (TTDI) has won a $34 million contract from Kenya Power & Lighting Company (KPLC) for the supply of around 8,000 distribution transformers made at the company’s facility in Hyderabad.

Kenya, Nairobi: Kenya Power has signed contracts worth $32.5 million with local companies to implement 12 substation upgrade projects in the country.

Kenya, Nairobi: Kenya Power will invest nearly $110 million to finance the construction of 36 new substations to strengthen the country’s electricity network.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has been awarded a $24 million Nairobi substation upgrade project by Kenya Power, the national electric utility and the country’s largest power transmission and distribution company.

Kenya: African Development Bank (AfDB) granted $133 million to The Last Mile Connectivity Project in Kenya in order to expand electricity access to remote communities in the region.

Kenya, Nairobi: Kenya Power secured a $190 million loan from Standard Chartered Bank to upgrade its transmission network.

Kenya, Nairobi: Kenya Power intends to improve power supply in Kakamega County with the investment of KES 96 million ($1.1 million).