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The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, on
Thursday released a review of its activities in the year
ended 2018, identifying vandalization of facilities,
energy theft, attack on members of staff as some of the
major challenges in the sector.
This was contained in a statement issued by the Head,
Communications, EEDC, Mr. Emeka Ezeh.
Ezeh, however, said the Disco recorded sterling
achievements and expressed appreciation to customers
“for their support, understanding and overall
partnership with the company in the course of the year,
despite the numerous challenges that adversely
impacted on the quality of service delivery to
customers.”
According to him, “some of the recurring challenges
which the company grappled with are: vandalism,
energy theft, accidental destruction of power facilities,
meter bypass, illegal connections and reconnections.
“Others include: non-payment of electricity bills, attack
on EEDC field officers and illegal tampering with
electrical installations which interfere with the network
and in most cases lead to destruction of electrical
facilities.
“Following series of engagements with customers,
EEDC identified areas of focus and mapped out
strategic plans to address them: such as upgrade of
some transformers and relieving overloaded ones;
installation of entirely new substations; overhauling
some weak networks for quality electricity supply.”
He added that “there are also plans to deload some
feeders and construct more injection substations to
boost electricity supply in identified locations within the
network.
“As a matter of fact, contract has been awarded for the
construction of a 7.5MVA Injection Substation at ABS,
Awka, which will cater for customers within ABS
environs, Okpuno, Enugu Agidi, Awka Urban, Zik
Avenue and parts of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.
“Also approved was the upgrade of Agu Awka Injection
Substation from 7.5MVA to 15MVA. Order has been
placed for the power transformer which is expected to
be delivered hopefully before the end of the month.
This will improve supply to customers at Agu Awka,
industrial Area, Amansea, Nkwere Awka, Ifite Awka,
Nnamdi Azikiwe University permanent site and its
environs.
“The management of the company has equally
engaged the services of some private contractors to
facilitate repair of faulty transformers, thereby
shortening the downtime periods experienced in the
network.”
Ezeh said that the asset registration and customer
enumeration exercise was still ongoing and appealed
for maximum cooperation with enumerators, as the
exercise was aimed at making EEDC more efficient in
providing quality service to customers.
“All these efforts cannot be effectively actualised
without the support and cooperation of our esteemed
customers.
“Improved electricity supply in the South East will
translate to improved business and socio-economic
activities; and to achieve this, EEDC is soliciting
continued support of her stakeholders and customers,”
Ezeh added.
Source:
dailypost.ng/2019/01/24/vandalism-energy-theft-
attack-staff-top-eedc-challenges-2018/