Nairobi, May 26 -- Kenya Power Managing Director Joseph Siror recently revealed that the utility is forced to ration electricity whenever supply from wind and solar plants plummets to near zero, and thus creating a deficit that the hydro, geothermal plants and imports are unable to fully plug.

The admission signals a delicate state of affairs for a country that boasts of being a leader in renewable energy generation and being home to the biggest wind power plant, the 310Megawatt (MW) Lake Turkana Wind Power Plant (LTWP).

What is power rationing?

This refers to a scenario where the electricity distributor, in this case Kenya Power is forced to cut off supplies to some customers mainly during peak demand hours (from 1830hours to 2200hour...