The Management of Kano Electricity Distribution, KEDCO, has apologized to its esteemed customers across its entire franchise area, comprising Kano, Katsina and Jigawa states for recent shortage in electricity supply.
This was contained in a statement signed by Head Corporate Communications, KEDCO, Sani Bala Sani on Friday.
According to the statement, the power shortage is largely due to low allocation of megawatts to KEDCO, for distribution.
The statement continued; “against an average of 280MW load allocation KEDCO now receives an average of 140MW, a shortfall of 140MW, which is grossly inadequate to go round all our customers sufficiently.”
“KEDCO is only responsible for distributing what is allocated to us by the National Control Centre (NCC) which has been constantly reviewed downwards and this has been responsible for the shortage of power supply to our customers.
“We assure our valued customers that we are engaging all necessary stakeholders to find a lasting solution that will facilitate improved electricity supply to our customers. Therefore, we are optimistic and confident that supply situation will improve as soon as possible.
“Furthermore, we wish to reiterate that we remain committed to distributing adequate electricity safely and reliably for our customers’ satisfaction and sustainable business growth; but that is being hindered occasionally by unforeseen generation and transmission challenges which are beyond our immediate control.
“In view of this, we appeal to our customers to remain patient while we engage and resolve the bottlenecks with the relevant stakeholders in the electricity value chain.” The statement said.
