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JEDCO resumes power supply in Juba The Juba Electricity Distribution Company (JEDCO) has resumed operations after nearly a week of a power blackout in Juba. Last week, the company shed off power in all the lines across the city after days of stalemate with the South Sudanese stakeholders over lack of financial commitments. Businesses and service providers entirely relying on electricity were either interrupted or operations halted much to the chagrin of residents. The company accused South Sudan’s government of lack of commitment to the 2017 contractual agreement which tasks the country’s Central Bank to pay operational costs worth 3million dollars monthly. But the government says it lacks enough money to fund the operations of the company. ....
Juba power company in forex standoff with gov t, threatens to switch off power Ezra Construction and Development Group (ECDG), which generates and supplies Juba city with electricity, yesterday said in a statement that it will cease operating its power plant in the next few days because the government of South Sudan has failed to make overdue payments in United States Dollars as agreed. “Ezra Construction and Development Group (ECDG), hereby gives notice that the Juba power plant will cease to operate in the next few days. On 31 March 2021, the company had notified Hon. Peter Marcello Nasir Jelenge, Minister of Energy and Dams, that it would be forced to take this drastic action unless the government of the Republic of South Sudan urgently made the US Dollar payment as set out in the PPA agreement signed on 16 August 2017,” the ECDG statement read. ....