Why DisCos reject load – ANED

The association of Nigerian Electricity Distribution (ANED) has explained why it’s members, the distribution companoes (DisCos), reject load as being alleged in some quarters.

The spokesman and director of planing and research for the group, Mr Sunday Oduntan, who disclosed this in an exclusive interview with LEADERSHIP said the problem arose from the fact that the transmission company of Nigeria (TCN) sometimes, due to their constraint in transmitting to a particular area, deliberately Channel the energy to areas where the people in one way or the other avoid payment of their bills.

According to him, the DisCos are already operating at a huge loss with the current tariff regime, so to collect power and pay for it and give where there will be no return is double tragedy.

“The issue of load rejection needs to be put in content. We buy electricity and we sell. We are expected to pay the cost of whatever we purchase to the generators of which we have not been able to meet up.

LEADERSHIP, October 26, 2017

 

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