Tackling the problem of electricity load shedding

The issue of load shedding still poses a big challenge to various electricity companies in the country. It is not a problem peculiar to only the Discos(Distribution companies). Even the Gencos(Generation companies) and Transco(Transmission companies) are still experiencing difficulty finding a way round it.
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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