A nationwide blackout that hit Kenya on Tuesday was caused by a monkey tripping a transformer at a hydropower plant, leading to the loss of more than 180 megawatts from the grid, power producer Kenya Electricity Generating Company said.
Power distributor Kenya Power and KenGen said electricity supply was knocked out at 11:30 a.m. local time after a technical fault at Gitaru Hydro power station.
KenGen, the East African country’s biggest power producer, runs the station. “A monkey climbed on the roof of Gitaru Power Station and dropped onto a transformer tripping it.
This caused other machines at the power station to trip on overload resulting in a loss of more than 180 MW from this plant which triggered a national power blackout,” KenGen said in a statement late on Tuesday. (Reuters)
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