Upkeep: Three States to Expertise Two-day Blackout – TCN

Electrical energy shoppers in Gombe and a few components of Yola and Bauchi states will expertise energy outage on Thursday and Friday on account of scheduled upkeep of energy amenities by the Transmission Firm of Nigeria.

The TCN introduced that its “upkeep crew will perform scheduled preventive upkeep on the bay of its T1A 150MVA, 330/132/33kV transformer bay” on Thursday and Friday, January 18 and 19, 2024.

Based on a press release by the TCN Basic Supervisor, Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, the upkeep will final eight hours, working from 9 am to five pm on every day.

Mbah disclosed that to begin the upkeep train, “TCN would switch the load from T1A 150MVA transformer to its T2A 150MVA transformer in the identical substation”.

She added that consequently, there can be “an interruption of bulk energy provide to Jos and Yola DisCos via the T1A transformer”.

She clarified that the interruption would solely have an effect on bulk provide throughout the switch interval solely, and never for your complete eight-hour interval it might take to finish the upkeep train on each days.

“The quick outage throughout the switch interval would have an effect on provide to Gombe and a few components of Yola and Bauchi states solely, throughout switch time on each days.

“TCN will, nonetheless, restore bulk energy provide via the transformer instantly after the upkeep train,” Mbah defined.

The transmission firm regretted “any inconvenience this may increasingly trigger electrical energy shoppers throughout the affected areas”.

The TCN upkeep crew had on Saturday carried out scheduled preventive upkeep on the Jos-Lafia 330kV transmission strains, which it stated had been redundant for a while.