There had been testimonies of tremendous improvement in electricity
supply nationwide. This improvement being witnessed is not one sided at
all. Everybody, young or old, rich or poor, village or town, city or
metropolis is a beneficiary. There had been no favoritism or sentiments
attached to this evenly distributed supply of electicity.
However, the issue of load shedding still poses a big challenge to various electricity companies.
Load
shedding, popularly referred to as "rationing" is a state whereby all
cannot have power supply at the same time. Hence, supply is rationed
from areas to areas and locations to locations. The popular "3 days ON 1
day OFF applies in most areas and locations.
Professionally, the
act of load shedding is not acceptable and should not be encouraged.
The ideal thing to do whenever there is insufficient supply of power in
an area, the technical operations officer in charge of that area would
alert a sister injection station to come to its rescue by putting more
power into system. This is very possible because all stations are
synchronized and feed from the Grid system.
The Grid is a network
connecting major generating stations and the load centre. The Grid
allows for spinning reserves to cater for emergency situations in order
to avoid load shedding. There cannot be complete breakdown of the entire
system, so therefore, the issue of load shedding should not suffice.
Load shedding is a quack approach to solving insufficient power supply
problem.
In some areas, the issue of load shedding has been
attributed to low performance capacity distribution transformers. The
electricity requirements of most communities grows geometrically.
Therefore, a scheme should be in place for periodical upgrade of
transformers in all communities. This would go a long way in curbing
load shedding in this areas.
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