Ikeja Electric Notifies Lagos Customers On 8-Week Power Outage

Ikeja Electric, one of Nigeria’s privately run power distribution companies said it will carry out an upgrade on one of its feeders, which will lead to electricity outages in some parts of Lagos and environ from October 11, 2021.

This mean, customers under the coverage within the areas being supply by the 132KVA conductors from Ogba to Ikeja may have to endure power outage for the next eight weeks.

The power outage, according to the DisCo will run from 8 am to 6 pm daily, begins on October 11.

The Chief Technical Officer, Ikeja Electric (IE), Jide Kumapayi, who made this known in Lagos, said the company will use the period of a power outage to carry out the upgrade to the 132KVA conductors from Ogba to Ikeja.

He listed areas to be affected to include Oregun axis; Police Training College axis; Anifowoshe; Ojodu; Oba Akran; Magodo; Omole Phase 1 and Oke-Ira, among others.

Many residents of those areas are already coping with a lack of adequate electricity supply as the company consistently embarks on load shedding due to what it terms weak infrastructure.

In many parts of the same area, IE has effected tariff hike under the pretense that it has achieved 18 to 20 hours of power supply, but in most cases, the power supply is on the average of 8-10 hours in such areas.

He noted that the outage became necessary because some of the 132Kv lines installed over 50 years ago had become obsolete and degraded due to time and usage.

“The TCN is currently embarking on the upgrade of the 132KV lines from Ikeja West to Ota and Alimosho in stages. This is the second stage.

“We will replace all the aluminum conductors with gap conductors which are more sophisticated to withstand heat and has more capacity to carry current.

“The implication of this is that from 8 am to 6 pm every day, the substations controlling these areas will be switched off which will affect the feeders connected to them,” Kumapayi said.

Also, Maximum Demand (MD) customers such as Ikeja City Mall, Police College, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital and the Ikeja High Court will be affected by the project