#Nairobi

The Kenya Electricity Transmission Company has commissioned the construction of a new power line that will offer an alternative path for power into Nairobi.

Kenya Power has commissioned a $128M gas-insulated substation (GIS) in Nairobi, a modernized indoor 220 kV substation that will replace the 50-year-old facility at Juja Road, boosting power transformer capacity by more than 50 percent.

Kenya, Nairobi: According to the statement by Kenya Power’s CEO, the national utility is currently running power projects valued at around $280 million, which will promote local transformer and electrical equipment manufacturers.

Kenya, Nairobi: Kenya’s first transformer manufacturing plant, established by the Chinese company Yocean Group, has been officially opened this week.

Kenya, Nairobi: Kenya Power transformer suppliers will have to shift to converters that contain aluminium windings, as opposed to copper ones currently in use, as the utility firm tries to curb transformer vandalism and improve the quality of power supply.

Firm steps up campaign to buy 80 per cent of items from Kenyan manufacturers

Kenya, Nairobi: Kenyans have been urged to consider joint ventures with foreign firms with know-how in transformer manufacturing technologies to tap Kenya Power’s $533.5 million annual procurement budget.

Kenya, Nairobi: Kenya Power and Toshiba Transmission & Distribution Systems (India) Private Limited (TTDI), a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a distribution pilot project.

Kenya, Nairobi: The Kenya Power and Lighting Company is inviting bids for 1,000 distribution transformers for the Kenya Electricity Modernization Project (KEMP), for which the government received a loan from the International Development Association (IDA).

Kenya, Nairobi: A single monkey caused a nationwide blackout in Kenya after falling on a power transformer at the Gitaru hydroelectric power station.

Kenya, Nairobi: The Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (Ketraco) has awarded a contract to CAMCE China for the construction of a new substation in Nairobi County which will be able to withstand more than 2000 MW of power produced.

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