Since March 2023 Kenya Power has announced 5,767 planned cuts, 44,608 scheduled hours across 1,110 of Kenya’s 1,449 wards. The notices vanish from the feed within days. PawaSwitch keeps every one and shows who carries the burden.
Planned maintenance concentrates in Nairobi, Nyeri, Kiambu, Uasin Gishu and Kisumu. Size isn’t the whole story: per resident, Nyeri gets 6.3× the national rate.
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The last 12 full months logged 14k hours cut against 14k in the 12 before. Year after year the busiest months are February and August.
A typical planned cut lasts 7.7 hours, most of the working day, when shops, clinics and classrooms need power. 84% fall Monday to Friday.
84% of planned cuts fall on a weekday during working hours, when classrooms and clinics need power most.