Ibadan communities to encounter blackout due to TCN maintenance

Some communities will suffer a blackout as a result of maintenance work on the  TCN Jericho Transmission Substation on Tuesday.

This was made known by the Transmission Company Company, TCN, in a statement through its General Manager, Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, who disclosed that the maintenance crew will carry out annual preventive maintenance on its second 40MVA 132/33kV power transformer.

TCN explained that the maintenance exercise is expected to take seven hours and will commence from 10:00 am to 05:00 pm.

According to the statement, the maintenance work will affect the offtake of electricity to some areas in Ibadan.

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“Consequently, Ibadan DisCo will not be able to offtake electricity to its customers in BASHORUN, SECRETARIAT, YEMETU, OREMEJI, AWOLOWO, ONIREKE, BANK ROAD and FAN-MILK today for the stated period.

“TCN assures that bulk power supply will be restored through the transformer on completion of the maintenance,” the statement reads.