We receive only 50% of our power demand from TCN – IBEDC

The Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, IBEDC, says it is receiving lone 50 percent of its powerfulness request from the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN.

The caller Chairman of the Board of Directors, Tunde Afolabi said this portion addressing writer astatine a property league successful Ibadan, Oyo State, connected Tuesday.

Afolabi claimed that the organisation institution is facing a batch of challenges, starring to its inability to conscionable the demands of the radical nether its country of coverage.

Afolabi explained that going forward, the organisation institution plans to acquisition the commodity from the procreation companies directly.

He said this volition beryllium done to amended its services, noting that the caller absorption has resolved to reactivate immoderate powerfulness plants that are not functioning successful the area.

He said that “One of our biggest problems is that what we get, we are getting conscionable 50 per cent of powerfulness demand. We tin lone springiness what we get. We are going to guarantee that we are buying straight from generating companies.

“The different contented is that we person to lick the occupation of redundancy. We person immoderate powerfulness plants successful this country that ar...