The recent rampant electricity cuts that inhabitants of certain neighbourhoods in Yaounde have witnessed since last Saturday due to a fire accident that completely burnt a 30-MW electricity transformer at the AES Sonel BGRM post of Melen will soon be a thing of the past.
The recent rampant electricity cuts that inhabitants of certain neighbourhoods in Yaounde have witnessed since last Saturday due to a fire accident that completely burnt a 30-MW electricity transformer at the AES Sonel BGRM post of Melen will soon be a thing of the past.
Authorities concerned are currently taking stringent measures not only to ensure that electricity supply comes back to normal, but also to prevent such problems in future. The Minister of Energy and Water Resources, Michael Ngako Tomdio and the Director General of AES Sonel, Jean-David Bile, yesterday, May 23 paid a visit to the Melen site to assess the degree of damage and what can be done to immediately regulate electricity supply in the nation’s capital city.
In the middle of burned cables, deafening noise of a generator that has been installed at the site, Minister Michael Ngako, Jean-David Bile and a score of AES technicians in security caps, eye glasses and shoes went through all the corners of the BGRM post to take stock of the damage. As the dignitaries went through the site, one could hear Minister Micheal Ngako Tomdio asking questions like “What might have caused the fire incident? What are the measures being taken by AES to urgently solve the problem? When will inhabitants of Yaounde witness little or no electricity cuts? After the tour of the site, the Minister of Energy and Water Resources had a closed door meeting with AES Sonel authorities.
The objective of AES Sonel is to get electricity supply back to normal in the next 72 hours. Jean-David Bile says his workers are working hard to get electricity supply back to normal. AES Sonel is progressively providing electricity to several neighbourhoods that have been in darkness since Saturday except those that were seriously affected. AES Sonel Director General (GM) says a study has shown that the second transformer at the BGRM post was not damaged and only the liaison cables were burnt and need to be tested entirely. The testing operation took place throughout yesterday. The Oyomabang thermal plant began supplying electricity on Sunday night and part of their energy supply was sent to other neighbourhoods. So far, priority has been given to hospitals and security services. Jean-David Bile says there is assurance that before the weekend, Yaounde would have regained 95 per cent of its electricity supply situation. The burn transformer will be replaced by next week, thanks to a transformer of the same nature that came from Douala.
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