AEDC Reaffirms Commitment To Provision of Meter, Commences Uke/Masaka 33kV Overhead Line Rehabilitation

AEDC Managing Director, Mupwaya

Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has reaffirmed its commitment to the provision of meter to customers, as The least it can do to ensure energy accountability as well as ensuring the integrity of payment for energy consumed by customers.

It further assured continuous support to the Meter Asset Provider (MAP) initiative of the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission because of the inherent potential to provide succor for customers in the recurrent issue of meter and metering.

The Managing Director/CEO of AEDC, Engr. Ernest Mupwaya, restated the commitment of AEDC to the supply of meter to customers within its franchise area when he hosted the Chairman of Meron Ltd at a meter contract review meeting in Abuja.

AEDC covers Niger, Nasarawa, Kogi States and the Federal Capital Territory.

This is against the backdrop of insistence by the Association of Nigeria Electricity Distributors (ANED) that distribution companies no longer have the responsibility of providing meters to electricity consumers, adding that MAP is now overseeing the responsibility.

But according to the AEDC CEO, the issue of metering will continue to remain an item of priority in AEDC as studies have shown that the Company loses more revenue from areas of low meter density.

In his words: “customers must through the installation of meters be continually reassured of the willingness of the service provider to receive payment only for energy consumed.

“For us in AEDC, this remains a major part of our business plan as it speaks to our overall transformation agenda in the area of service delivery”.

In another development, AEDC revealed that it has begun the rehabilitation of the Uke/Masaka 33kV overhead lines in order to evacuate the excess capacity that is available at the TCN 1 x 30 and 1 x 60MVA facility in Keffi, Nasarasa State.

The TCN facility in Keffi is currently working at less than 30 percent, translating into the availability of excess capacity that can be utilized by the DisCo.

In a statement by the General Manager, Corporate communications, Oyebode Babs Fadipe, AEDC said the rehabilitation, which will cost N7m will on completion, will bring some relief to customers in Masaka, Mararaba, One Man Village, Autabalefi and environs, who are currently experiencing a regime of load shedding as a result of the capacity limitation that exists at the 2 x 60MVA TCN facility in the Karu.

AEDC is expected to evacuate at least 20MW from Keffi thus improving the power supply in the affected areas, which currently suffers at least 53MW capacity insufficiency.