Accugas Restricted, Ibom Energy disagree over energy outages

Accugas Restricted, a subsidiary of Savannah Power, and the Ibom Energy plant have continued to commerce blame over energy outages in Akwa Ibom State.

The facility outages crippled social and financial actions for 3 days within the state culminating within the sacking of the Managing Director of the Ibom Energy Plant, Meyen Etukudo, by the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Umo Eno.

The previous MD had, in a press release whereas reacting to the facility state of affairs within the state, blamed the non-supply of gasoline from Savannah Power as one of many causes for the outage.

He mentioned “Regrettably, our gasoline provider, Savannah Power not too long ago sabotaged the laudable efforts of Ibom Energy by chopping off the gasoline provide to the plant.

“This lack of gasoline provide coincided with a reported fault on the 132kv Itu-Aba Transmission line which transports from the nationwide grid out and in of the state, therefore the statewide outage” former MD  Ibom Energy Plant mentioned.

However reacting, the Communication Supervisor of Accugas Restricted, Okwudili Onyia, in a press release, faulted the claims of the sacked MD of Ibom Energy, stressing that the facility state of affairs was solely brought on because of the fault within the 132kv Itu-Aba Transmission line

He mentioned, “Accugas needs to strongly deny the misinformation regarding its alleged involvement within the present energy outage in Akwa Ibom State.

“The facility lower in Akwa Ibom State is completely because of the reported fault within the 132-KV Aba-Itu transmission line, which, sadly, is stopping energy from being transmitted from the nationwide grid into the state.

“It’s crucial that the restoration of the Aba-Itu line is accomplished as quickly as potential. Ibom Energy Firm is one in every of 23 thermal energy era firms that channel energy to the nationwide grid, which in flip disseminates all collected energy to every state of the federation by way of the electrical energy distribution firms.

 “Certainly, Accugas provides gasoline to allow 20 per cent of Nigeria’s thermal era capability and, as such, is a vital enabler of the Nigerian financial system. Inside Akwa Ibom State, Accugas has been the only provider of gasoline to IPC since 2014 and, along with different Savannah subsidiaries, has invested over $1.5bn in gasoline growth throughout the state.”