Residents and businesses in parts of Nigeria’s southern Delta State face power interruptions on Wednesday as engineers carry out scheduled maintenance at a key transmission substation.
The state-owned Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said in a statement that its maintenance crew will service a 60MVA transformer and related switchgear at the Delta 132/33kV Substation.
The work is scheduled to take place between 10:00 and 16:00 local time (09:00 to 15:00 GMT).
During the six-hour maintenance window, the local distributor, Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC), will be unable to draw power from the substation for onward delivery to consumers.Areas affected by the outage include:Agbarho, Eku, Aladja and surrounding communities.
TCN apologized to electricity customers in the affected districts for any inconvenience caused by the temporary disruption.
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