Again, TCN Records New Power Transmission Peak of 4,662MW

30 Jul 2015

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TCN’s General Manager, Public Affairs, Seun Olagunju

32,229 customers get refunds from Abuja Disco for over-billing


By Chineme Okafor in Abuja


The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) yesterday disclosed that the national electricity grid transmission has attained a new peak capacity of 4,662 megawatts (MW), some 6MW different from its last record of 4,656MW.

TCN, in a statement by its General Manager, Public Affairs, Seun Olagunju, in Abuja, explained that the new peak was attained at about 8p.m on Tuesday.

It said the country’s power generation and transmission capacities have in the last couple of days enjoyed new peaks above 4,500MW following improvements in gas supply to the generating stations as well as equipment and infrastructure upgrade in the transmission network.

TCN which assured that it would continue to work at enhancing the capacity to transmit more quality power to the electricity distribution companies in the country, also attributed the new records to enhanced human capacity of its system operator.

The transmission company had on Wednesday, July 15, announced its attainment of the previous 4,656MW peak transmission, just two days after it recorded 4,545MW peak transmission in the national grid.

Meanwhile, about 32,229 electricity consumers that are serviced by the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) within its franchise distribution areas of Abuja, Kogi, Nasarawa and Niger have reportedly begun to receive refunds for excess charges levied by the Disco for electricity they consumed between the months of October 2014 and May 2015.

The refund which runs into millions of naira may however come in the form of credit awards on the bills of the 32,229 affected customers. The development follows an enforcement order on the Disco by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) for flagrant breach of its licenses conditions as regards estimated billing methodology.

NERC had in the order accused AEDC of continuous fleecing of consumers and threatened to take punitive measures against it if it fails to refund to consumers monies collected from them from estimated billing over certain periods.

The commission equally asked it to submit to it comprehensive data it used for the billing of its unmetered customers for the months October, November and December 2014, saying that it had noticed unusual increase in the estimated bills of customers of the Disco.

AEDC’s Executive Director, Regulatory and Stakeholders Affairs, Abimbola Odubiyi, however confirmed the Disco’s commencement of the refund.

“The first thing is to give a rebate to the affected electricity customers before July 3 which we have done. All the affected customers as identified jointly by NERC and AEDC have been compensated accordingly.

The next thing is that NERC gave us a two -month deadline and that will elapse in mid-August for us to publish in newspapers the apology which we are going to do,” Odubiyi said.

He noted that on the public apology which NERC also mandated it to tender to its customers that: “Why we haven’t done that is to ensure that all the affected customers have been informed and duly compensated.

We can’t do the apology adverts when the customers have not been compensated. Some might be wondering if it worked. I know that the identified customers are over 32,000 and the rebate varies from N1,000 to N5,000. I can’t say how much we have spent overall.”
source:http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/again-tcn-records-new-power-transmission-peak-of-4-662mw/216068/
cc:lalasticlala

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The ones that are not yet fired by my sai buhari working round the clock to get things in order, the finance department remitting every penny to avoid probing and kirikiri

Men am loving this new government, thanks to my sai buhari
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Yet my area is buried in total blackout.

natas22:
The ones that are not yet fired by my sai buhari working round the clock to get things in order, the finance department remitting every penny to avoid probing and kirikiri

Men am loving this new government, thanks to my sai buhari
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I believe you are grown up man or woman with a mature brain to reason in a mature way. Look at the past administration left the power since two months now do you expect ministries to stop working or government workers to stop active? All I can see the sai baba fans want him to succeed at all cost and is too early to checkmate his achievement. All we want is a better nigeria

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I should be expecting another one next month

jcross19:
I believe you are grown up man or woman with a mature brain to reason in a mature way. Look at the past administration left the power since two months now do you expect ministries to stop working or government workers to stop active? All I can see the sai baba fans want him to succeed at all cost and is too early to checkmate his achievement. All we want is a better nigeria

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jcross19:
I believe you are grown up man or woman with a mature brain to reason in a mature way. Look at the past administration left the power since two months now do you expect ministries to stop working or government workers to stop active? All I can see the sai baba fans want him to succeed at all cost and is too early to checkmate his achievement. All we want is a better nigeria

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jcross19:
I believe you are grown up man or woman with a mature brain to reason in a mature way. Look at the past administration left the power since two months now do you expect ministries to stop working or government workers to stop active? All I can see the sai baba fans want him to succeed at all cost and is too early to checkmate his achievement. All we want is a better nigeria

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jcross19:
I believe you are grown up man or woman with a mature brain to reason in a mature way. Look at the past administration left the power since two months now do you expect ministries to stop working or government workers to stop active? All I can see the sai baba fans want him to succeed at all cost and is too early to checkmate his achievement. All we want is a better nigeria

sai buhari

jcross19:
I believe you are grown up man or woman with a mature brain to reason in a mature way. Look at the past administration left the power since two months now do you expect ministries to stop working or government workers to stop active? All I can see the sai baba fans want him to succeed at all cost and is too early to checkmate his achievement. All we want is a better nigeria

Do you have any doubt that the fear of PMB has a huge influence in the improvement we're witnessing?

The topic has been discussed to death. So, don't bring it up.

God Bless PMB
Nigeria shall be great again.

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Hotsparkles:
Dividends of privatization. God bless Gej.

GEJ must have been a fool not to want this kind of dividends during his reign, right?

Its normal for all govt (even GEJ's) to have constant electricity at this time of the year... If the country can have stable electricity by February/March nxt year, I wld give PMB kudos...