Electricity distributor Kenya Power faces pressure to upgrade its ageing infrastructure and boost efficiency in reconnections during outages after the energy sector regulator capped the permissible number of unplanned blackouts in new proposed changes aimed at improving service delivery.
In a drastic shift, the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (Epra) proposes to limit the System Average Interruption Frequency Indicator (SAIFI) – the number of times an average customer is hit by a blackout – to 20 in a year.
