Why electricity supply has reduced – Ikeja Electric
Ikeja Electric has attributed the reduced hours of electricity supply across its network to a shortfall in power allocated from the national grid. Read More:…
Ikeja Electric is one of Nigeria's 11 electricity distribution companies (DisCos) created after the 2013 privatisation of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria, and it serves a large chunk of Lagos, including Ikeja, Agege and Ikorodu. Like other DisCos, it does not generate power but draws from an allocation handed down from the national grid, meaning its supply to customers is directly tied to how much electricity generating companies are able to transmit nationally at any given time.
Nigeria's grid has long struggled with inadequate generation, gas supply disruptions, transmission constraints and periodic system collapses, issues that routinely trigger load-shedding and reduced supply hours for consumers regardless of their billing band. The coverage here centres on Ikeja Electric's explanation that a drop in its grid allocation, rather than a fault within its own network, is behind the recent reduction in supply hours. Outlets have reported this explanation consistently, though neither has yet detailed the size of the shortfall, how long it is expected to last, or what is being done to restore full allocation.