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Kenya Power plans gas-insulated transformers to fend off vandals

TTDI managing director Katsutoshi Toda (left) with Kenya Power chief executive Ben Chumo on August 25, 2016. PHOTO | DIANA NGILA

Kenya Power will replace the oil in transformers with gas to bar vandals from accessing the fuel in fresh efforts to cushion consumers from power interruptions.

The utility firm Thursday entered a pact with a subsidiary of Japan’s Toshiba Corporation to instal several gas-insulated transformers on a pilot basis before going full scale.

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