The Management of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Plc. has reassured the residents of Mowe, Ibafo and Magboro communities of its readiness to improve electricity supply in the axis.
The Chief Operating Officer of the company, John Ayodele, gave the assurance on Tuesday in an interview with journalists in Ibadan on the state of electricity supply in the communities.
He appealed for their understanding saying that the dismal power situation being experienced in those communities is a shared challenge between IBEDC and the Transmission Company of Nigeria.
According to him, the three communities get their supply from Oke-Aro 132KV/33KV Transmission Station, while allocation by TCN for the area is 13 MW, even as the communities require a total of 40 MW.
Ayodele said because the TCN could not allocate the energy required to serve all the customers at the communities, the only option at this time is to deploy intensive load management to ensure that customers have equal hours of daily supply.
“Another major challenge is that the 33KV which is a straight network is solely under the control of the TCN. Whenever there is a fault, the normal routine is that our engineers must get an approval from the TCN before repairs can commence and this process is a bit challenging.
“Also, depending on the nature of the fault and the terrain of the network affected the process becomes more cumbersome,” he said.
Ayodele stressed that IBEDC is working on the reconstruction of the old Owode-Egba network to enable some of the communities’ benefit from the newly commissioned Abeokuta Transmission Station at Kobape.
He said, “We are also appealing to our unmetered customers in this locality to take advantage of the Meter Asset Provider Scheme to get metered. Our staff are on strict schedules to ensure that customers issues are promptly addressed.”
