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

[Mentor Ida]

Lol Barrack!
They said it was monkeys? Only in Kenya why lie!

Best, Ida

On 6 Aug 2016 11:07, "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/2016/04/30/kenya-power-to-pay-for-bl
>> ackouts-lasting-more-than-3-hours_c1342132
>>
>> Read on!
>>
>> Blessed day.
>>
>> Regards/Wangari
>>
>> ===
>>
>> 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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