Kenya: Kenya Power Explains 5 Cause of Numerous Blackouts

Many Kenyans often experience power outages due to various factors, among them the failure of transformers.

Kenya Power, which trades on the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) under the ticker KPLC, on Thursday sought to explain why many Kenyans have been forced to spend hours in the dark due to transformer failures. 

The company attributed transformer failures to overload caused by unauthorised connections that result in transformer overloads. The result is power blackouts.

“When communities tap…