{"id":217875,"date":"2025-12-23T22:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-energizes-400-220kv-mariakani-substation-boosting-coastal-power-supply-and-industrial-growth\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T22:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:50:07","slug":"kenya-energizes-400-220kv-mariakani-substation-boosting-coastal-power-supply-and-industrial-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-energizes-400-220kv-mariakani-substation-boosting-coastal-power-supply-and-industrial-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Energizes 400\/220kv Mariakani Substation, Boosting Coastal Power Supply and Industrial Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Nairobi \u2014 The Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (KETRACO) has officially energized the 400\/220kV Mariakani Substation, a milestone set to deliver reliable, stable, and affordable electricity to homes, businesses, and industries across the Coastal region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">The Mariakani Substation, a critical link connecting the Coast to the national transmission grid, is part of the Nairobi-Mombasa Transmission Line, designed to transmit over 1,000MW of electricity between the two regions. Its energization&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512230590.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (KETRACO) has officially energized the 400\/220kV Mariakani Substation, a milestone set to deliver reliable, stable, and affordable electricity to homes, businesses, and industries across the Coastal region. The Mariakani Substation, a critical link connecting the Coast to the national transmission grid, is part of the Nairobi-Mombasa Transmission Line, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":217876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[53217,258,256,8531,13691,53216,6641,7190,4688,430,47168,257,7047,254,21796,5236],"class_list":["post-217875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-400220kv","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boosting","tag-coastal","tag-growth","tag-industrial","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-mariakani","tag-news","tag-power","tag-south-africa-today","tag-substation","tag-supply"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}