There won’t be blackout in four Nigerian states from next year – AEDC

Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC, has vowed to trim blackout and energy interruption successful Federal Capital Territory, Niger, Kogi, and Nassarawa states, respectively, from adjacent year, 2027.

The Chief Executive of AEDC, Engr. Chijioke Okwuokenye, made this known astatine an engagement successful Abuja connected Thursday.

This comes arsenic the Disco attributed nationwide driblet successful powerfulness proviso owed to reduced allocation from the nationwide proviso owed to seasonal challenges.

He noted that the disco would trust connected the Nigerian National Petroleum Company’s 350-megawatt ongoing state works successful Gwagwalada to boost energy proviso successful Abuja and the situation by either the past 4th of this twelvemonth oregon adjacent year.

“We are progressively powerfulness reliable. We are constructing a caller feeder to Wuse from the 2nd week of March for customers successful Wuse to acquisition astatine slightest 20 hours of powerfulness supply. Same with Idu.

“It whitethorn dependable similar a gangly order, but it is possible; we person the enactment of our board, shareholders, and the government. By this clip adjacent year, this immense interaction successful presumption of powerfulness driblet volition beryllium a happening of the past.

“By this clip adjacent twelvemonth we volition not beryllium affected by the driblet successful powerfulness proviso from the National Grid,” helium said.

He lamented that vigor theft...