The south East region of the country was today ploughed into darkness following failure of the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, – the disco covering the region to supply power.
In a swift reaction via a statement by the company’s head of Communication, Emeka Ezeh, stated that their failure to supply power is due to the “fire outbreak at Benin 330KV transmission line reactor”.
According to the statement, the EEDC is assuring their esteem customers to tarry for a while as they are sure that the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN is already on the situation and will soon restore supply soon.
The statement reads;
The Enugu Electricity Distribution PLC (EEDC), wishes to inform her esteemed customers that the present loss of supply in the entire South East, is as a result of a system collapse which occurred at 09:21am of today, 30th June, 2019.
This is as a result of the fire outbreak on Benin 330KV transmission line reactor
As a result of this unfortunate development, there is zero supply to all customers in our franchise areas as all our injection Substations are affected .
We are standing by for restoration of supply by the TCN as they are already on the matter.
