{"id":25919,"date":"2016-06-08T02:14:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T02:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenya-nationwide-blackout-caused-by-rogue-monkey\/"},"modified":"2016-06-08T02:14:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T02:14:04","slug":"kenya-nationwide-blackout-caused-by-rogue-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenya-nationwide-blackout-caused-by-rogue-monkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya nationwide blackout caused by rogue monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A single monkey caused a nationwide blackout in Kenya after falling on to a crucial piece of equipment.}<\/p>\n<p>The monkey fell on a transformer at the Gitaru hydroelectric power station on Tuesday, electricity provider KenGen said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The transformer then tripped, resulting in the loss of 180 megawatts of energy and triggering a blackout across Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Power was restored almost four hours later and the monkey survived its adventure, KenGen said.<\/p>\n<p>It has now been taken in by the Kenya Wildlife Service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;KenGen power installations are secured by electric fencing which keeps away marauding wild animals,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We regret this isolated incident and the company is looking at ways of further enhancing security at all our power plants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Business Daily Africa website reported that businesses bore the brunt of Tuesday&#8217;s blackout.<\/p>\n<p>Many had installed generators as a result of previous blackouts, it said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12671 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_89911309_89911308.jpg\" alt=\"The monkey appeared to be a vervet monkey, which is native to Kenya\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A single monkey caused a nationwide blackout in Kenya after falling on to a crucial piece of equipment.} The monkey fell on a transformer at the Gitaru hydroelectric power station on Tuesday, electricity provider KenGen said in a statement. The transformer then tripped, resulting in the loss of 180 megawatts of energy and triggering a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-25919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25919"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=25919"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=25919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}