ABSTRACT
Today in the Nigerian Electricity Distribution business, organisational profit lies in the ability of a distribution company to manage the supply demand of her customers when they need power and collect all revenue due for the power supplied. Electricity Distribution Companies generally categorise customers into Maximum Demand and Non-Maximum Demand customers. In customer population mix, Maximum Demand customers are usually small in number compared with Non-Maximum Demand customers. Payment response from Maximum Demand customers are usually very high, while payment response from Non-Maximum Demand customers are yet to come up to a satisfactory level. With the challenges of Aggregate Technical, Collection and Commercial Losses and non- cost reflective tariff rocking the utility companies in Nigeria, a Distribution Company may be left with no better alternative than to supply more power to the class of customers that will respond promptly to payment of energy consumed. However, the existing distribution network infrastructures in Nigeria does not actually support supplying preferential customers and leaving out others. This paper seeks to introduce a new load management strategy which has not been in practice in Nigeria that can help tackle this electricity distribution challenge in order to attain maximum profit.
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Time of Need Power Supply Concept
