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…as customers in Nsukka enjoy 18 hours supply
According to Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, recent commitment towards improving socio-economic state of South East region has completed power projects within the areas for effective power supply.
The company also said that with completion of realignment of its Nsukka Township 11KV Feeder, in Nsukka, Enugu State, both commercial and residential customers within the affected area can now enjoy eighteen hours of electricity supply.
It was also gathered
that majority of those enjoying reliable and steady supply during their active
time (between 6am and 5pm) are commercial banks such as Zenith Bank, First
Bank, GTB, Access Bank, as well as hoteliers, adding that it would reduce
expenses on diesel and generator maintenance tremendously. Mr Emeka Eze, the Head
of communications, disclosed this development to pressmen on Thursday in Enugu.
According to him, “the recent effort is coming against the backdrop of EEDC’s
commitment towards improving the socio-economic state of the South East region.
“It will be recalled that late last year, EEDC also invested
in its network in Nsukka, to improve the quality of service to customers by
constructing additional feeders. These include: the UNN 33KV, Orba 33KV and
Wilson 11KV feeders. This significantly improved power supply to customers in
the area, resulting to the deloading of Eha Amufu 33KV line”. Eze disclosed
that EEDC equally completed and commissioned major projects in Owerri, Imo
State and Abakaliki, Ebonyi State respectively few months ago. “Some other
network enhancement projects executed by EEDC to improve supply to customers
include: the construction of 1 x 7.5MVA Injection Substation at ABS, Awka; the
upgrading of the 2 x 7.5MVA Injection Substation at Agu-Awka to a 1 x 15MVA and
1 x 7.5MVA (increasing the capacity from 15MVA to 22.5MVA); the construction of
1 x 7.5 MVA Nike Lake Injection Substation at Nike; the upgrading of Awka
(Main) Injection Substation at Nibo from 1 x 7.5MVA to 1 x 15MVA and the
upgrading of Ebeano Tunnel Injection Substation at Enugu from 1 x 7.5MVA to 1 x
15MVA. Eze who appealed to customers to reciprocate this investment by paying
their electricity bills and desisting from acts such as energy theft, meter
bypass, and vandalism, which impacts negatively on the company’s operations,
encouraged those customers that are unmetered to embrace the ongoing Meter
Asset Provider (MAP) metering scheme to get their properties metered. “MAP
metering scheme which kicked off sometime in June is an initiative of the
Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), designed to enable unmeterd
customers procure meter from approved third party meter providers and have
their meter installed within ten (10) working days of paying for it. “To get
started, interested customers are to log on to EEDC website
(www.enugudisco.com), click on the “MAP Meter Request” button, fill the online
form, upload their identity card and thereafter submit. Subsequently, the
pre-survey team will visit the property to be metered to ascertain that
everything is alright, after which a Demand Note will be issued to the customer
for payment of the approved meter”. The meters cost N38,841.00 (Thirty Eight
Thousand, Eight Hundred and Fourty One Naira) for a Single-Phase, while a
Three-Phase meter goes for N70.409.00 (Seventy Thousand, Four Hundred and Nine
Naira). “These costs are inclusive of VAT and payment must be paid at the bank,
and not to any individual or group”, Ezeh emphasized. EEDC encouraged customers
to safeguard all electricity installations serving them, while reassuring them
of its commitment towards dependable and enhanced service delivery.
