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The Transmission Company of Nigeria ( TCN )
and Abuja Electricity Distribution Company
(AEDC) on Friday traded blames over why power
supply to the DisCos and customers was low.
TCN’s Managing Director Usman Gur Mohammed
said there was no network constraint in the
Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) that
would have amounted to load reduction.
The TCN boss spoke at the official commissioning
of 2*60 power transformers in Suleja
Transmission Substation, Niger State.
According to him, the constraint was simply that
of the AEDC equipment.
He promised to take the reporters on a tour on
the transmission substations around within the
territory of the AEDC.
He said: “The constraint that Abuja has is within
their equipment not within the network.
“And there is no place in Abuja where we have
the network. Let me tell you, some of the things
we did in Kano, Kaduna, if you are interested we
can take you.
“In Kaduna they created this problem and said we
have problem with network, I instructed our
regional manager and said take them to the sub-
station and show what was the capacity and
what distribution were taking.
“So, we will do the same thing for you to enter
our sub-station in Abuja so that you can see for
yourself what is the capacity there and what has
Abuja DisCo taken.”
But AEDC Head of Corporate Communications
Oyebode Fadipe told our correspondent on phone
although the AEDC had its challenges, it was
unfair for the MD of TCN to blame all the
constraints in the sector on it since there were
also challenges of transmission network.
He said: “It will be unfair to say that it is our
company (AEDC) that made our customers not to
have power in the homes.
“We have our challenges and TCN has its own
constraints too, it is unfair for him to keep saying
that the DisCos are the weakest link in the value
chain. TCN should face its challenges and let us
face our own.”
The Nation, however, learnt from a source who
did not want her name mentioned that “in this
week, the breaker in Gwagwalada was bad. The
line in Kukwaba, Kubwa tripped off.”
The sources wondered whether those faults were
those of AEDC equipment.
The commissioned transformers, according to
TCN, were from the $100million loan intervention
that the Federal Government received from the
International Development Association.
The contract was awarded to Messrs MBH Power
limited in June 2016 with a completion date of
June 2018.
The transformers that have load capacity of
48mw to 162mw will increase the substation’s
capacity from 66mw to 162mw .
Source: thenationonlineng.net/tcn-aedc-trade-blame-load-allocation-rejection/