On 26 December 2011 09:10, aki
<aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
KPLC POWER OUTAGE LOG:
- Saturday 24th Dec : At least 4 outages lasting 1 hour each
- Sunday 25th Dec ( Christmas Day ) : 1 outage lasting 30minutes
- And then it rained overnight : No electricity the entire night, restored early dawn
- Monday 26th Dec ( Boxing Day ) : No power since 8am.
No rocket science involved, there are only 3 cables involved in an electricity network. How complicated can it be to maintain such a simple distribution system from high voltage to low voltage? Clearly shows the problem is not power generation because a large % of the users of the electricity closed for the public holidays. This human element is the root cause of all the outages.
If Kenya had Winter and Summer seasons, where central heating is necessary through winter and air-conditioning is necessary through summer, many kenyans would already have already died from the cold or heat due to the weather.
Au contraire, if we had winter and harsher weather, Kenya would be a more developed country. It has been argues in some sectors that Africa is less developed because of great weather all year round, requiring less effort to survive through it as food will be available almost through the whole year. This laxity is inherent to date where there is no incentive to come up with such stuff as reliable electricity
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