How TCN frustrates allocation formula, by Disco
BARELY one month after they took over the successor companies to the unbundled and dismantled Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), it is, perhaps, too early to cry wolf. Perhaps they need more time to settle down and get a better grab of the Nigerian power sector.
The above angles raised by some observers notwithstanding, the new owners, at their meeting yesterday with the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), were lamenting their losses, problems and frustrations.
Such frustrations included power allocation to the different operators. For instance, while it is statutorily to be allocated at least 80 megawatts (MW) by the market operator, Kano Electricity Distribution Company (DISCO) said it was getting only 40MW to service about 13 business units.
Even out of that, the company said yesterday that 20MW goes to Niger Republic. The Kano DISCO has a franchise for Kano, Katsina and Jigawa states.
Its Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Jawil Gwamna, who stated his company’s frustration at the NERC meeting in Abuja yesterday, urged the commission to call the system operator at the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) to order to save his company’s investment.
The Guardian had last August reported that the lack of adherence to regulation on load allocation by TCN had consistently resulted in poor electricity supply to some consumers in parts of the country, a development that had pitched TCN against NERC.
Barley a month after the handing over of the utility firms to private investors, the situation seems the same, as the Kano DISCO investor complained that he had not made any financial gains from the utility, but rather services its operations from funds sourced elsewhere.
BARELY one month after they took over the successor companies to the unbundled and dismantled Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), it is, perhaps, too early to cry wolf. Perhaps they need more time to settle down and get a better grab of the Nigerian power sector.
The above angles raised by some observers notwithstanding, the new owners, at their meeting yesterday with the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), were lamenting their losses, problems and frustrations.
Such frustrations included power allocation to the different operators. For instance, while it is statutorily to be allocated at least 80 megawatts (MW) by the market operator, Kano Electricity Distribution Company (DISCO) said it was getting only 40MW to service about 13 business units.
Even out of that, the company said yesterday that 20MW goes to Niger Republic. The Kano DISCO has a franchise for Kano, Katsina and Jigawa states.
Its Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Jawil Gwamna, who stated his company’s frustration at the NERC meeting in Abuja yesterday, urged the commission to call the system operator at the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) to order to save his company’s investment.
The Guardian had last August reported that the lack of adherence to regulation on load allocation by TCN had consistently resulted in poor electricity supply to some consumers in parts of the country, a development that had pitched TCN against NERC.
Barley a month after the handing over of the utility firms to private investors, the situation seems the same, as the Kano DISCO investor complained that he had not made any financial gains from the utility, but rather services its operations from funds sourced elsewhere.
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