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    "id": 1398864,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1398864/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker. Thank you, Sen. Chute, for that question that touches on the outage that was experienced and disruption of power supply experienced in most part of the country on that Saturday 11th November, 2023 and the nationwide blackout that occurred on August Friday 2023 and actions we have taken against the agencies. Hon. Senators, let me respond to the status of the investigation into the nationwide power outage on those two dates. At the time when we experienced that national outage, the system demand at the time of that occurrence was way below the peak demand. There was enough power on the grid, as we were only taking in 1,855 megawatts within the generation mix of hydro, which at that time was delivering 355 megawatts. Geothermal at that time was delivering 817 megawatts. Thermal was delivering 244 megawatts. The wind was at 356 megawatts. We did not have any imports from Uganda. We were feeding them two megawatts because we do a power exchange with Uganda. At this particular time, we were pushing two megawatts to Uganda. We were getting 100 megawatts from Ethiopia through what we call Electrical Engineering Portal (EEP). The first event related to the outage was recorded by our system at the National Control Centre in Dandora, the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system, at 21 hours, 45 minutes, 09 seconds, 187 milliseconds. I stress that because we record events to milliseconds or any occurrence because sometimes, we want to see the sequence of events, what happened before which event. That outage was associated with what we call a dynamic reactive power compensation system at Lake Turkana Wind Power in Loyangalani. The analysis of the event revealed"
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