The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has approved the upgrade of 60 additional feeders of the Eko Electricity Distribution Company, bringing the total to 134.
EKEDC spokesperson, Babatunde Lasaki, said in a statement that the upgrade followed a review of the feeders in line with their capabilities to give the customers classified under the feeder at least 20 hours of power supply daily.
Lasaki listed the feeders to include, Agbara Local T5, Agbara Local T6, Beecham, Medallion Data Centre, Custom 2, New Idumagbo, Federal Secretariat 33, Berkley Express, Ilubirin, Old Niger, Ajele 1, Ajele 2, Commercial, NIMASA, Apapa Mains 1, Apapa Road Local T1, Apapa Road Local T2, Amuwo Local T3, Promenade, Kirikiri Express, Causeway 1 33, Abeokuta XI, Alcove Homes, Sabo 33, New Yaba (Akangba), NRC (Akangba), UNILAG, Print Serve, Causeway 2, Psychiatric, UNILAG 1, Engineering Close, Alagbon Local T2, Alagbon Local T1, Anifowoshe 1, Anifowoshe 2, and Anifowoshe 3.
Others are Fowler 1, Fowler 2, Federal Palace Express, IHS, Ademola 1, Utilita, Novatel Hotel, Lekki, New Yaba (Akoka), NAFDAC (New Yaba), Federal Medical Store, Ladipo, LUTH Complex, Randle, Ijesha (Itire 2), LUTH, Idi Araba 33, Isolo Local, Iba 33, Ojo Local T1, Ojo Local T3, Adelabu 1 and Adelabu 2.
The EKEDC corporate communications general manager expressed optimism that the DisCo has the capacity to accommodate more feeders in the Band A category subject to the NERC approval.
He further stated that the EKEDC is committed to improving its services by leveraging technology and improving turnaround time on fault resolution.
“We will continue to meet our obligations to our customers by giving them power commensurate with their tariff classification.
“Being value-driven is one of our core values and we remain resolute in keeping to our service promise to our customers. We won’t stop until all our customers have a minimum of 20 hours daily,” Lasaki added.
The commission also announced a downward review of the tariff from N225 to N206.80 per kilowatt-hour as ordered by the NERC, saying this was due to changes in foreign exchange, inflationary indicators, generation and transmission costs.
The NERC had on April 3 hiked the tariff payable by customers categorised as Band A, stopping government subsidies in these areas.
From N68/kWh, Band A customers had their tariff raised to N225/kWh until Monday when it was reduced by 8.1 per cent.
Meanwhile, organised labour has threatened to picket the offices of the NERC and those of the DisCos if the Band A tariff was not reversed.
