[kictanet] kenya-power-to-pay-for-blackouts-lasting-more-than-3-hours

Wed Aug 10 10:22:03 EAT 2016

Blessed Wednesday!

As who pays for the dropped time is reflected upon, there has got to be another way to keep the nation powered.

Kenya Power must be commended for in the recent years, more regions of the nation have access to the grid.

Solar power penetration is marginal.
Back up power ends up being the famed fuel-based generators which are used by offices and manufacturers - leading to higher cost of production and higher prices and reduced business profits.
Options of nuclear energy....

ICTs are highly energy and in this instance Kenya Power dependent.

Overall for growth of the sector and its valued contribution to the GDP, the power must be rethought.

Blessed day.

Regards/Wangari

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On Sun, 7/8/16, Douglas Gichuki via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [kictanet] kenya-power-to-pay-for-blackouts-lasting-more-than-3-hours
 To: wangarikabiru at yahoo.co.uk
 Cc: "Douglas Gichuki" <dgichuki at strathmore.edu>
 Date: Sunday, 7 August, 2016, 11:42

 But
 wait.
 There has been long standing legal policy to
 insulate utility companies such as Kenya Power from being
 sued for pure economic losses occurring due to their
 negligence. Why? The eventual bills will be passed on to the
 consumers anyway, culminating in an even higher cost of
 power, which as you know plays a huge part in influencing
 cost of manufactured goods.
 Regards,
 On 6 Aug 2016 10:07
 a.m., "Barrack Otieno via kictanet" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
 wrote:
 Wangari, this is timely power
 has been off since 5.30 am, last time we were told it was
 switched of by monkeys, any idea on the culprit this time?
 Baboons i guess

 On Aug 6, 2016 10:23 AM,
 "Wangari Kabiru via kictanet" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
 > wrote:
 www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/0
 4/30/kenya-power-to-pay-for-bl
 ackouts-lasting-more-than-3-ho urs_c1342132
 Read on!
 Blessed day.
 Regards/Wangari
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 Apr. 30, 2016, 5:00 am By LOLA OKULO
 Power went off in parliament late on Thursday
 as MPs debated a bill to compel Kenya Power to compensate
 customers in case of prolonged blackouts.

 The Energy Bill 2015, proposed by Mvita MP Abdulswamad
 Shariff will make Kenya Power pay customers for any losses
 due to blackouts exceeding three hours, in case it fails to
 issue a 24-hour notice prior to such an outage.

 The bill was passed by parliament and will now go to the
 Senate then forwarded to the president for assent, if
 senators also pass it.

 The proposed law will push Kenya Power to compensate a
 consumer where due to power outages, poor quality,
 irregularity of electricity supply or negligence; the
 consumer incurs financial loss or suffers physical
 injuries.

 Shariff said the bill was meant to check conduct of the
 company given that it is a monopoly.

 "The whole idea is not to punish anyone, but honestly
 they need to pull up their socks," Shariff told the
 Star on Friday.

 "Every time there is a blackout there are financial
 losses. There are people running butcheries, salons and
 other businesses. What we are saying is that there is a
 financial aspect to it (power outages)."

 The compensation, according to the bill, shall be paid in
 form of a subsidy incorporated in the customer's bill.
 It shall be equal to the amount of loss incurred as
 presented by the consumer and verified by Kenya Power.

 The power utility firm will only be spared paying a
 compensation, in case a blackout is due to 'an act of
 God', like in the case where heavy downpour causes a
 power line to fall.

 On Thursday evening, other than parliament, most areas in
 Nairobi had a blackout following heavy rains that flooded
 most roads in the city.

 "Heavy rainstorms have this evening caused power
 interruption in most parts of Nairobi. The heavy rains that
 started late in the afternoon have interrupted electricity
 supply and distribution systems in parts of the city,"
 said Kenya Power in a statement issued on Thursday night.

 Last July, Kenya Power said it would need at least five
 years to build adequate redundancies at our major load
 centres in cities such as Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu, which
 will end outages.

 A redundancy system allows the company to transfer customers
 to a subsidiary network and keep electricity on, when there
 is a failure within the main network.

 The company is also undertaking a major infrastructure
 upgrade to reduce outages.

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