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Africa-Press – Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>Kenya Power has announced it is working on having Uganda’s interconnector restored to enhance power recovery efforts around the country.<\/p>\n

Through a statement, the company said it had to turn to electricity from Seven Fork Hydro power stations to kick start the restoration exercise as they waited on Uganda.<\/p>\n

The company said electricity from Seven Fork takes a longer period as compared to electricity imported from Uganda (UETCL), which is faster but was unavailable at the time.<\/p>\n

“We are jointly working on having the Uganda interconnector restored so as to enhance our grid recovery efforts,” the company said.<\/p>\n

“Most of the grid was sequentially restored from Central and Eastern Regions where the hydro generation is located and towards Nairobi.”<\/p>\n

It said it is also working on electricity restoration in parts of Nairobi, Coast, Western, Central Rift, North Rift and South Nyanza that are still off supply.<\/p>\n

“We are in the final stages of onboarding power from the Olkaria complex where most of the geothermal plants are located,” part of the statement read.<\/p>\n

Kenya Power said the System Demand at the time of the outage was 1855.8 MW.<\/p>\n

This led to a loss of approximately 15 percent of generation that was expected to cause a widespread power outage.<\/p>\n

“By 1145 hrs today most of the transmission grid had been energized and normal power supply to customers restored as generation came on board,” Kenya power said.<\/p>\n

“We shall continue to update as we finalise the restoration efforts. We apologise to our esteemed customers for the inconvenience caused and thank them for their patience.”<\/p>\n

On Friday night, the country was plunged into darkness following a massive power outage that affected most parts of the country including Nairobi, Central, Rift Valley and Western regions.<\/p>\n

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