Ikeja Electric Announces 8 Weeks Blackout In Some Areas In Lagos
Ikeja Electric Plc on Monday stated that some communities under its network in Lagos State will undergo an eight-week power outage.
In a statement, the Chief Technical Officer of the company, Jide Kumapayi, mentioned that the development was to allow the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) to re-conduct its 132KV lines.
He said the upgrade is coming at a period when the capacity of most of the 132KV lines has become limited as a result of time and usage, thereby leading to under-utilization.
“The TCN is currently embarking on the upgrade of 132 KV lines from Ikeja West to Ota and this activity is phased into four stages. This is the second stage and TCN is upgrading the 132kv lines with more robust and sophisticated replacements which provide an opportunity to increase power evacuation for improved supply to customers as well as offering excellent conductor capacity which can withstand very high voltage,” he announced in a post on Ikeja Electric’s website.
“The upgrade which is set to commence on Monday, October 11, 2021, will affect customers within Oregun, Anifowoshe, Ojodu, Magodo, Omole, Oba-Akran, Oke-Ira, Ogba, Omole Phase 1 and parts of Ikeja, between the hours of 8:00am and 6:00pm daily, for eight weeks.”
Jide, however, gave the assurance that the company’s technicians will be readily available to render support when the need arises during the upgrade.
“Even though this is a TCN project, we owe our customers the duty to inform them of the situation because we interface with them on a daily basis.
“We believe it will be for the benefit of our customers at the end of the day and will also allow Ikeja Electric to invest more in our Network to improve power supply to customers under our network. So we want to appeal to our customers to bear with us as this exercise will be beneficial toward the improvement of power supply in our network,” he concluded.
