Nairobi, Aug. 31 -- Recurring power interruptions in Kenya are no longer simply an inconvenience to households. They are becoming a business-continuity, property-management and investment issue.

On July 29, Kenya Power confirmed an outage affecting Nairobi, the Coast, Mt Kenya and parts of the Central Rift, attributing it to system disturbance. Planned interruptions continued in August.

Property owners should now ask not only how quickly power can be restored, but how prepared their properties are when it is not.

The World Bank says power outages cost local businesses an average of 1.5 per cent of annual sales. Rationing linked to changing wind and solar generation can force businesses to seek alternative power or scale down operations...