Kaduna Electric Fails to Deliver Required Hours of Electricity, Apologies

The Kaduna Electric has apologized for inability to deliver the expected hours of Power supply to its customers.

The apology notice was signed by Abdulazeez Abdullahi, head of Corporate Communication, and share through the official LinkedIn page of the Kaduna Electric.

The affected areas includes Feeder 11kv, Luggard Hall, located at Abakpa, supplying Alkali road, Yakubu avenue, Whaff road and Independence way respectively. The feeder was out for 3 hours due to tripping and 2 hours due to broken HT poles.Kaduna Electric claimed to have to supplied power in the said area for 19 hours.

The Feeder 33kv Airport road Mando, supplying Airport Kaduna, Eye Center Kaduna, NDA kaduna new annex and Mando road. The feeders in this area were out for six hours due to a broken cross am. Power was supplied hour was 18 hours.

Feeder 11kv commercial Zam at the Power house, supplying Nta Gusau along Samaru, was out for five hours due to high voltage on 33KVTB2 transformer at Gusau transmission station. It was claimed that power was supplied in the area for 18hours.

At the 11kv government house Zam, power house, supplying Yankuka, Yariman Bakura hospital, water board & government house Gusau.

The feeder tripped for five hours due to fallen tree branches. The said place enjoyed 19 hours power supply.

The Kaduna Electric, thus express its commitment to supplying the expected hours.

Earlier in the year, Kaduna Electric completed credit adjustment to 49,000 overbilled customers under the estimated billing system from January to September 2023.

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), in February 2024, noted that the eleven electricity distribution companies (DisCos) billed unmetered customers over N105 billion from January to September 2023.

Findings revealed that Yola DisCos, Port Harcourt DisCos, Kaduna DisCos, Abuja DisCos, Eko DisCos and Jos DisCos overbilled unmetered customers a total of N541.8 million, N14.187 billion, N1.145 billion N17.874 billion, N13.137 billion and N13.3 billion respectively.