TCN’s Managing Director, Usman Mohammed, had repeatedly called for the recapitalisation of Discos to enable the power firms boost their networks and distribute power efficiently. Although some of the power distributors accepted excess load from TCN (Abuja, Port Harcourt and Yola Discos), the quantum of excess power that they collected was insignificant when compared to what all 11 Discos collectively rejected during the period under review. Findings showed that the three Discos only collected an excess load of 346.93MW between February 3 and February 23. But power distributors had repeatedly argued that it was unprofitable to deposit electricity load in locations where consumers were unwilling to pay their bills. According to them, this was among the reasons why power allocation from TCN was being rejected by Discos.

Source: Punch March 03, 2020 23:12 UTC