Kenya Power lists areas to experience blackout on Sunday, November 30
By Kenneth Mwenda, November 29, 2025Residents in sections of Kisumu County will experience an hours-long power interruption on Sunday, November 30, 2025, as Kenya Power continues its routine maintenance on the electricity network.
In a notice released on Friday, the utility company said the outage will run from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. and will affect customers in Masogo, Onyalo Biro, Ombei, Ngere Kagoro, Ogilo, Othoo Market and nearby homes and businesses. Engineers will be carrying out scheduled works aimed at strengthening the network and preventing cases of unplanned blackouts in the region.
Kenya Power said the exercise is part of its wider programme to upgrade ageing infrastructure and ensure stable electricity supply, especially in rural and fast-growing areas. The company often plans these interruptions on weekends to reduce inconvenience for customers and allow technical teams enough time to complete repairs or replace worn-out components.
The maintenance comes a day after similar works took place in Kisumu and Kakamega counties on Saturday, where residents in several areas had planned outages lasting most of the day. Saturday’s disruption mainly affected Rwea Catholic, Bungu, Anywang’ and surrounding parts of Kisumu County.
In Kakamega, homes and businesses in Musaga and the wider West Kenya Sugar belt went without electricity as teams upgraded lines and carried out safety checks. Kenya Power said those works were necessary to improve supply reliability in regions that have experienced occasional interruptions linked to old lines, vegetation overgrowth and heavy demand during peak periods.
The company has been conducting these regional maintenance programmes throughout the year. The aim is to reduce emergency outages by fixing weaknesses before they result in faults. Customers in the affected areas have been asked to plan ahead, especially those who rely on electricity for refrigeration, machinery or sensitive equipment.
Kenya Power has also encouraged residents to treat all lines as live during the maintenance period for safety reasons, even when power appears to be off. The company often restores electricity earlier than scheduled when works finish on time, but it warns that supply may remain unstable until the final checks are complete.
Digital meter shift
The updates come as Kenya Power continues rolling out a new digital meter reading system, which will replace the manual process used for years. The company announced earlier this week that it had adopted Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to scan meter readings automatically.
Meter readers will now use devices that capture the numbers directly from the meter display, cutting the risk of human error and improving billing accuracy for postpaid customers.
The new system follows a six-month pilot in Nairobi that the firm says delivered strong results. Kenya Power plans to extend the technology to all its eight regions, covering about 1.8 million postpaid meters. The change is part of the company’s digital transformation strategy, which seeks to improve customer service and deal with long-standing concerns about incorrect bills.
According to Kenya Power’s Commercial Cycle Manager, Richard Wida, the OCR system makes the reading process faster and more reliable. He said the automation will support wider efforts to ensure customers receive accurate bills and reduce disputes linked to wrong readings or estimated consumption.