AEDC Power Distribution dips to 20mw
…. apologises for near-total blackout
The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has dipped to 20mw has apologized to its customers within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and beyond, for the near-total blackout being experienced.
The company on its twitter handle @AEDCelectricity urged its customers to be patient as it was only receiving 20 megawatts of electricity from the transmission companies.
“Dear esteem customers, as a result of challenges in the grid, the allocation to AEDC has been limited to only 20mw.
“In the circumstance, we are unable to service our customers.
“We apologise for the inconvenience this may be causing or customers. We promise to restore power supply as soon as the allocation to AEDC improves,” it said.
Prior to the announcement of a drop in its supply, the company had taken to its handle to announce a supply of 463 megawatts for its customers in FCT, Nasarawa, Niger and Kogi.
The company which always announces the amount of electricity supply received, usually has above 450 megawatts on an average.
Economic Confidential recalls that the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), had accused Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) of rejecting about 40 per cent of electricity wheeled to the company at TCN’s substations in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
TCN’s General Manager, Transmission Services, Mr Sulaiman Mahmud made the accusation in an interview with journalists on Monday in Abuja.
Mahmud said that complaints of inadequate power supply by consumers in the FCT and AEDC’s franchise areas was not a challenge of transmission.
He said AEDC was not fully taking delivery of the electricity transmitted in its sub-stations.
Meanwhile, consumers in FCT satellite towns of Kubwa, Nyanya, Karu, Karshi, Orozo, Lugbe among others have been grappling with the challenge of epileptic power supply in the last two months.
The challenges ranged from load-shedding, limited supply, non-supply for days, outrageous estimated billings, and overloaded transformers among others.
“At the Karu transmission substation with an installed capacity of 2×60 MVA, basically, what we are experiencing is load rejection from AEDC, because we have 96 MW from the two transformers.
“Incidentally, from what we are recording for the past one week, you see that the transformers are just carrying 31 MW, sometimes up to 48MW in some instances,’’ Mahmud said.
He said AEDC was only taking between 35MW to 50MW on the average, out of 96 MW from the Karu substation.
“So the complaint they are raising that we don’t have enough capacity to supply them, let them pick the one we have, that is our argument with them. “It is surprising that you have this capacity and people in Karu, Jikwoyi, Karshi ,Kurudu ,and Orozo, don’t get supply up to two hours a day. “We have a situation where we can supply them power but they refuse to take the power.
