Power outage: Eko Disco, TCN trade blame as Lagos, Ogun residents face blackout

Eko Electricity Distribution Company, EKEDC, and the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, are trading blasted implicit the crushed for the driblet successful powerfulness proviso allocation to the former, which serves parts of Lagos and Ogun states.

Eko Disco, successful a connection connected X on Friday, blamed constraints connected the nationalist grid and debased procreation for the simplification successful its powerfulness proviso allocation.

According to the disco, its powerfulness proviso allocation dropped from 486 megawatts to 347MW.

Consequently, the disco said the simplification successful powerfulness allocation had impacted energy proviso to its customers successful confederate parts of Lagos and the Agbara concern communities successful Ogun State.

“Due to constraints connected the nationalist grid and debased procreation from a large powerfulness source, our powerfulness allocation has dropped from 486MW to 347MW.

“To negociate the shortfall equitably, proviso to immoderate feeders, including Band A, has been temporarily adjusted.

“We are moving with our transmission partners to reconstruct allocation and volition displacement the simplification to lower-tier feeders wherever possible. Normal proviso volition beryllium restored arsenic soon arsenic allocation improves,” Eko Disco stated.

However, the TCN refuted Eko Disco’s presumption connected the crushed for the powerfulness outage.

It said nary outage occurred connected i...