Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has apologized to its customers regarding the poor power supply, assuring them that it’s already looking for alternative sources of supply.
According to the statement made by AEDC Managing Director, Adeoye Fadeyebi, the blackouts experienced by consumers is due to low generation and grid instability.
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The statement read:
We, the management of Abuja Electricity acknowledge the terrible and persistent poor state of electricity supply to your various homes and offices.
We honestly feel your pains and trauma, and we plead for your continued understanding, while not absolving ourselves of our responsibilities. We are working in concert with other industry partners and stakeholders to address the broader problems of low generation and systems instability.
We also write to intimate you our dear customers of some quick-win intervention projects that we as Abuja Electricity have specifically recently undertaken with the sole objective of quickly improving the supply of power to our franchise area.
Adeoye Fadeyebi noted in the statement:
First among this is the fact that we are in various stages of discussions with some power developers capable of giving us, within a few months, a good level of embedded power generation to boost and complement whatever else we get from the National Grid, this is especially for the purposes of improving supply to Metropolitan FCT.
Additionally, aside from the low generation being experienced nationwide, we at AEDC have embarked upon some 40 quick-win projects that are geared towards rehabilitating our network and thereby increasing availability and customer satisfaction. They range from de-loading the overloaded feeders, purchase of 81 new distribution transformers and repair of 78 existing distribution transformers. We are also carrying out major maintenance on 34 power transformers.
The company assured that in a matter of weeks to a few months, depending on the duration of the different projects, the power supply will be better.
