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Lack of power foils Nyanza, Western growth as blackouts plague region
A Kenya power technician at work. South Nyanza has doubled its electricity demand for the domestic load from 51-Gigawatt hours (GWh) to 106GWh. FILE PHOTO | NMG
If you are in western Kenya for the festivities, you have probably have not been experiencing a full blast of the holidays; thanks to the frequent power outages.
Electricity in the region, stretching all the way from parts of Kericho, is highly rationed and it may have become worse as many urban dwellers trooped to the villages to join family members in celebrating Christmas and ushering the New Year.
