Audit report queries Ketraco equipment

Faulty transformers at the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company’s (Ketraco) sub-stations have been the cause of frequent power outages around the country, an internal audit report on the parastatal says.

The power failures’ real impact is dilution of quality of supply that ultimately drives businesses into extra costs that are passed on to taxpayers in form of expensive goods from the manufacturers.

Inflated cost of maintaining the transformers has also seen Ketraco spend extra millions to keep the main lines powered, making it yet another public finance management disaster.

Ketraco, which is tasked with evacuating power from the generation…