TL;DR
Kuwait's grid recovery reached five of seven main transmission lines on Friday — up from four on Wednesday — but full restoration requires parts that arrive through Hormuz.
MSM Perspective
Kuwait News Agency reported the recovery as a positive development without noting the supply chain dependency.
X Perspective
X noted the irony: Kuwait's grid repair depends on equipment shipped through the strait whose closure caused the damage.
Kuwait's Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy confirmed on Friday that the fifth of seven main transmission lines damaged by Houthi drone strikes had been restored, bringing grid capacity to approximately 78 percent. The remaining two lines require replacement transformers currently aboard a cargo vessel anchored at Fujairah, UAE — waiting for passage through the Strait of Hormuz. [1]
The grid whose damage was caused by the war cannot be repaired without transiting the chokepoint the war closed.
-- PRIYA SHARMA, Delhi
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