TCN announces partial power outage on Saturday

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has announced that power supply to parts of Nasarawa state will be disrupted for six hours on Saturday, June 22, 2024, due to scheduled maintenance.

The maintenance exercise will be carried out on the 40MVA transformer at the Akwanga transmission substation, affecting power supply to Akwanga Town, Wamba, Gudi, Garaku, Nasarawa Eggon, and surrounding areas.

TCN said in a statement on Friday that the maintenance exercise will be carried out on its 40 megavolt-amperes (MVA) transformer at the Akwanga transmission substation.

READ ALSO:NGX sheds N56bn as investors sell off banking stocks

“The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) hereby states that its maintenance crew will carry out planned annual preventive maintenance on its 40MVA Transformer at Akwanga Transmission Substation on Saturday, 22nd June, 2024 between the hours of 9:30 am and 4:30 pm,” the statement reads.

Consequently, the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) will be unable to offtake power from the transformer, resulting in a power outage in the affected areas.

TCN said the power supply will be restored immediately after the maintenance is completed by 4.30 pm on June 22.

“We apologies for any inconvenience this may cause and assure our customers that we are working hard to minimise the impact of the outage,” TCN said.

This maintenance exercise follows recent efforts by TCN to address power supply issues in the region. On June 4, the company completed the rehabilitation and restringing of four vandalised towers along the Jos-Gombe 330 kilovolt (KV) transmission line, which supplies bulk power to substations in the north-east.

The towers were vandalised on April 23, affecting electricity supply to Gombe, Damaturu, Maiduguri, Yola, Bauchi, and Jalingo.