The normal electricity supply in Juba City will be resumed in four weeks after the power plant is fixed, JEDCO has announced.
Recently, Juba suffered a blackout lasting over 10 hours due to a technical malfunction in one of the power-generating engines, resulting in a major power disruption in the capital.
This was the first significant power disruption in Juba this year.
The Juba Electricity Distribution Company – JEDCO reported that the technical teams were given a week to restore full power to the capital.
Despite a week passed, the partial load shedding is still ongoing.
Joseph Thomas, JEDCO’s Public Relations and Communications Officer stated the power outage will continue for another month until the power plant is fixed once and for all.
“The problem of the shedding or the power cut nowadays happening in Juba is that we are having a problem with one of our engines,” Thomas told Eye Radio.
“The sufficient balance of the energy that we have or the sufficient power of electricity that is available is not that enough for the whole customers, that’s why we are shedding now,
“We communicated earlier that we are going to do a shedding according to the diagnosis and the experts of the power plant,
“It will take them only four weeks to fix once and for all,” he added.
“The management of JEDCO with stakeholders are putting measures in place so that in future such things will not happen again.”