RESIDENTS of Usen community in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State will soon begin to enjoy improved power supply as the Benin Electricity Distribution Plc, BEDC, will soon add 7.5MVA to the existing 7.5MVA transformer installed in the state.

Fidelis Obishai, chief state head, BEDC, said the poor supply to the community existed before BEDC came on board.

He spoke at the third quarter information sharing/customer forum of BEDC held across select communities in Ologbo, Ulemo and Usen areas of Edo State. He apologised to the residents of Usen community for the poor power supply to the area, stressing that replacement cost for the transformer was huge. He noted that it was due to the inadequate capacity of the 7.5MVA transformer that resulted into massive load-shedding in the community.

Obishai urged members of the Ologbo community under Ikpoba/Okha Local Government to form an Electricity Committee that would help fast-track issues on power supply to their area, saying that the community was not relegated by BEDC because of its strategic position as an oil producing community.

Edo State, he said, has over 1,000 communities in BEDC, and that the company gets less than the required amount of electricity from the national grid to guarantee regular power supply to those communities and that the power supply to BEDC comes from Transmission Company in Benin and through Oghara in Delta State. “Ologbo as an oil producing community is not relegated in the scheme of things.”

He urged residents of Ulemo community in Oredo Local Government to pay their electricity bills promptly to enable BEDC embark on faulty equipment repairs in their area and attend to other issues with prompt dispatch. He described Ulemo community as a peaceful and most organised out of the locations chosen for the customer engagement sessions.

– Sept 22, 2017 @ 10:46 GMT /