News flash
- Kenya’s state owned transmission company, KETRACO, has successfully energised the 50 km 132kV Awendo-Isebania (Masaba) Transmission Line and charged the 132/33kV 23MVA power transformer at Masaba Substation.
- Customers in Migori, Isebania, Kehancha and Ikerege are now connected directly from Masaba substation through the 33kV feeders.
Funding for the project was provided by China Eximbank and construction was carried out by China Aerospace Construction Group Corporation Limited. The Awendo-Isebania project is part of three projects funded by China Eximbank under the Kenya Power Transmission Expansion Project.
The other two projects are the 120 km, single-circuit 132kV Sultan Hamud-Loitoktok overhead transmission line (OHL) — that runs from Makueni County to Kajiado County in Mashuuru and Oloitokitok Sub Counties — and two associated substations; and the construction of a 40 km, double-circuit 220kV Isinya-Konza transmission line that connects Konza substation to the Isinya substation, thereby ensuring reliable power supply for Konza Technopolis (or the Konza Techno City), which is an innovation hub constituting of technology firms and it is situated on a 5,000-acre piece of land 60 km from the country’s capital city of Nairobi.
Author: Bryan Groenendaal
