Electricity supply from the 300MW Lake Turkana Wind Power Plant has been cut off indefinitely after a section of the 220kV Loiyangalani-Suswa electricity line clashed. Already, Kenya Power company has warned of a pending power shortfall as its engineers moved in to access the damage. Already, engineers from the power company and the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (KETRACO) have embarked on repairing the damaged sections. Following the incident, Kenya Power issued a statement to assure electricity consumers that normalcy would be restored in the coming days. He said that families living near the power line were ready to move out if the power transmission company compensated them.

Source: The Star December 22, 2021 15:11 UTC