TCN Faults Ibadan DisCo On Cause Of Failure To Meet Estimated Hours Of Power Supply

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has faulted claims by the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) on cause of its failure to meet the estimated number of hours of power supply to its feeders.

IBEDC had on 9th April 2024 claimed that TCN is responsible for its failure to “deliver estimated hours of supply to its feeder due to System Outages and Tripping on TCN ‘s feeders.

But in a statement by TCN General Manager (Public Affairs), Mrs Ndidi Mbah, declared that the TCN had taken time to investigate the IBEDC’s claimed and found that it was false and incorrect.

Mbah said that to set the record straight, the feeders mentioned in the publication “are NOT within the TCN network”, adding that “most of the listed feeders in the publication are 11kV operated by IBEDC and completely outside TCN’s Operational Control and in IBEDC’s network.”

Further, Mbah maintained that the reasons given for the outage on IBEDC 11kV and 33kV are earth/over current faults, which had no bearing on TCN’s frequency control operations.

She stressed that the statement by IBEDC has been verified by TCN’s regional management in Osogbo in conjunction with IBEDC Officials themselves and has been proven to be false, necessitating necessary corrections being made.

She claimed that TCN sees this misinformation of IBEDC as a ploy to undermine and mislead the public against regular power supply, but assured that TCN remains focused on supporting the government’s move towards a more robust and efficient power supply.

Also, TCN assured the public of its commitment to continue to work hard to effectively transport the entire bulk electricity received from the generating companies to distribution load centres nationwide.