Turkana Power Plant dismisses allegations of being responsible for nationwide blackout
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Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP) dismisses allegations of being responsible for the nationwide blackout that hit the nation on Friday from 9.45 pm
Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP) dismisses allegations of being responsible for the nationwide blackout that hit the nation on Friday from 9.45 pm.
The power plant in a statement made on Saturday, August 26 denied Kenya Power’s assertions that the outage happened after losing 270 megawatts (MW) of power from the Lake Turkana Wind Power Plant (LTWP).
According to Kenya Power, failure at the Turkana Wind facility allegedly caused an imbalance in the power supply and quadrupled all other primary generation units and stations, resulting in a complete grid outage.
In response, the Turkana Wind plant said that due to an overvoltage issue with the national grid system, it was compelled to go down and stop generation.
“Our attention is drawn to various social media reports and a statement by Kenya Power in respect of the present power outage. LTWP wishes to assert that it has not caused the current power outage,” read part of the statement.
It added its disconnection was necessitated by the need to avoid extreme damage that causes wind power plants to switch off automatically.
It added its disconnection was necessitated by the need to avoid extreme damage that causes wind power plants to switch off automatically.
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By the time it went off, LTWP was generating 270 MW of the 1855 MW needed for the entire country.
It added that other power generators in the system would immediately compensate for such interruption.
LTWP added that the plant was yet to be restored since it was forced to switch off on Friday evening.
Given that it was also impacted by the technical difficulties seen since Friday, it was underlined that there have been additional interruptions and outages in the national grid system that are outside of its purview.
LTWP, however, assured that it was committed to working with other stakeholders in the industry to ensure the supply of low-cost renewable energy.
“We are doing whatever we can to support the immediate restoration of power to every consumer in the country,” LTWP assured.
The power outage resulted in various disruptions in several critical sectors, including hospitals and airports.
To restore nomancy, Kenya Power was forced to seek power from Seven Fork Hydro power stations in Thika and Uganda.
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