Scheduled maintenance of power facilities by the Transmission Company of Nigeria will lead to power outages for electricity consumers in Gombe and certain areas of Yola and Bauchi states on Thursday and Friday.
The TCN has declared that its maintenance crew will conduct planned preventive maintenance on the bay of its T1A 150MVA, 330/132/33kV transformer on Thursday and Friday, January 18 and 19, 2024.
The maintenance, as stated by the TCN General Manager, Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, is scheduled to last for eight hours, from 9 am to 5 pm on each day.
Mbah disclosed that to commence the maintenance exercise, “TCN would transfer the load from T1A 150MVA transformer to its T2A 150MVA transformer in the same substation”.
She added that consequently, there would be “an interruption of bulk power supply to Jos and Yola DisCos through the T1A transformer”.
She clarified that the disruption would solely impact bulk supply during the transfer period, not for the entire eight-hour duration required to complete the maintenance exercise on both days.
“The short outage during the transfer period would affect supply to Gombe and some parts of Yola and Bauchi states only, during transfer time on both days.
“TCN will, however, restore bulk power supply through the transformer immediately after the maintenance exercise,” Mbah explained.
The transmission company regretted “any inconvenience this may cause electricity consumers within the affected areas”.
On Saturday, the TCN maintenance crew executed planned preventive maintenance on the Jos-Lafia 330kV transmission lines, which, according to them, had been inactive for a considerable period.