TCN maintenance work: Blackout hits Ondo

Parts of Ondo State are presently without energy arsenic the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, announced a one-day outage successful its Ondo 132/33 kilovolt Transmission Substation.

In a connection on Tuesday, TCN’s spokesperson, Ndidi Mbah, said the outage is scheduled to past from 8:00 americium to 6:00 pm.

The outage affected energy customers successful Okitipupa and Ondo Town.

According to TCN, the energy disruption is to alteration workers to transportation the Ife-Ondo 132kV Transmission Line from the projected Omotosho-Ondo 132kV Transmission enactment bay to the Ife-Ondo 132kV enactment bay.

TCN added that the commissioning of a recently installed 60 megavolt ampere 132/33 transformer volition beryllium carried retired simultaneously astatine the substation.

“Consequently, Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) volition beryllium incapable to off-take powerfulness proviso to its customers successful Okitipupa and Ondo Town for 10 hours on Wednesday, June 30, 2026 only,” TCN stated.

TCN attraction work: Blackout hits Ondo