#Kenya

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

Kenya, Kiserian: All of the 60 turbines at the Kipeto wind farm reached commercial operation in the first week of July and are now producing power to the grid.

Kenya, Nairobi: Kenya’s electricity distribution utility, Kenya Power, has added another substation to its growing network.

Kenya, Nairobi: Solar power has proven to be the solution needed by flower farmers in Kenya to support their energy-intensive businesses.

Kenya, Nairobi: Kipeto Energy Plc (KEP), today announced it has connected Kipeto wind farm to the national grid and will start generating power in the next week.

Kenya formally launched Africa’s biggest wind power plant, a mammoth project worth $680 M that already provides nearly a fifth of the country’s energy needs.

Mariakani, the 400/220 kV substation, is set to allow supply of more levels of geothermal power to the coastal economy, according to Kenya Electricity Transmission Company.

Kenya: Fernandes Barasa from KETRACO said that through the 220kV/400kV line, western parts of the country will receive geothermal electricity.

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 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: 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, 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: About 300,000 households and businesses will be linked to Kenya’s national grid after the African Development Bank (AfDB) approved a $130 million loan for a low-cost connection 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: Kenya’s state-owned power utility, Kenya Power, will install 20 new transformers in the North Coast by the end of June in an effort to stabilise electricity supply in the area and address frequent outages.

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: More than 14 transformers will be installed in Juja sub-county in Kenya in the first quarter of this year to increase the sub-county’s access to power.

Kenya, Kiambu: The Kenya Power Company has recently put up 26 transformers in Thika city East and Thika West districts in Kiambu County, aiming to increase power supply.

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