The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), today, approved the upgrade of an additional six feeders from Band B to Band A for Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company.
This brings to 51 the total feeders on the DisCos from the previous 45 feeders, reports Nigerian Tribune.
The feeders are Adeleke Adedoyin, Ajeast, Annex, Army Resettlement, British America Tobacco, CIG, Coker, Dideolu, Droyers, Empire Court, Estate, Etim Inyang, Firro, Freeman, Glover, Heritage, M&K Express, Mega Plaza, Montgomery 1, Moore Road, Nest Oil, NIMR, Nipost, Osborne, Ozumba Mbadiwe, Palace Road, Rocky Estate, Rumens, Smith, Station Feeder (Nitel), Victoria Arobieke, DPR and Nitel.
It would be recalled that on April 3, the Federal Government, through the NERC, announced that subsidy would no longer be paid on the electricity consumed by Band A customers.
From N68 per kilowatt-hour, Band A customers now pay N255/KWh, while others maintain the old tariffs.
The DisCo disclosed this today in a statement by the General Manager, Corporate Communications of EKEDC, Babatunde Lasaki.
Lasaki said customers in these areas would experience “a guaranteed minimum of 20 hours of power supply daily in line with the newly approved Multi-Year Tariff Order.”
He assured customers within the EKEDC network of ongoing efforts to improve the quality of service rendered to them.
Lasaki said the additional six feeders upgraded from Band B to Band A were approved after the commission’s thorough review of their ability to supply 20 hours of electricity daily.
He said, “In our bid to serve our customers better, we are looking to even add more feeders to the list of our Band A feeders so that more customers can enjoy a guaranteed 20 hours of power supply daily.
“It is also our commitment to ensure that customers under other service bands, that is, Bands B to E also enjoy their guaranteed minimum supply hours while we work to improve our power supply.”
Lasaki added that EKEDC was working to eliminate supply downtime within its franchise area and achieve its goal of a stable and uninterruptible power supply.
He said, “The EKEDC is dedicated to investing more in infrastructural capacity to improve power supply and is working with all stakeholders to ensure a minimum of 20 hours of supply is available to all its customers.“
