Kenya Power Says Power Outage to Hit Nandi County

Kenya Power has said that the electricity interruption that is set to occur on Tuesday in Nandi County of the nation was due to a maintenance issue. 

The agency made the disclosure in a statement made available to journalists, explaining that the planned maintenance will be carried out in Chepterit, Nandi County of the country. 

The outage, noted to take more than five hours, is expected to affect the following areas like Chepteri, Kingwal, Kipsimo and its neighbouring customers in the East African country. 

This development follows months after the national government clarified the country’s power situation following President William Ruto’s comment that Kenya has been forced to carry out load shedding in some areas between 5pm and 10pm.

In November 2025, the managing director of Kenya Power Joseph Siror acknowledged that while Kenya occasionally experiences power constraints, the country’s overall electricity generation remains sufficient to meet demand.

"Yes, it is true that once in a while because of breakdowns and because of the intermittent nature of solar or wind we can have a slight constraint. But over and above, we do have adequate power within the country but the reserves are normally very thin," he said.

Siror further noted that power supply during the day is generally stable, with challenges only arising during evening peak hours when demand surges.

"In terms of attracting the investors, it is very good for me to state that during the day we have adequate generation and it's only that window between 6pm to 10pm which we are addressing and I think the PS has addressed that, but again after 10pm we have too much power available," he stated.

Similarly, the country’s energy principal secretary Alex Wachira said that Kenya currently does not have a backup power generation that can be instantly deployed to stabilize the grid when renewable output dips.

"We don’t have a spinning reserve, what is a spinning reserve? Spinning reserve is, in case we have a plant that is put in case today Lake Turkana has low output, we do not have a plant that can be able to inject instantly, to ensure that we do not load shed.

"So we survive very well on days when we have good wind output, but on days when we have bad wind output in the country we do not have enough firm capacity that can power our peak power demand," the top government official said.