“It is rather unfortunate that the TCN will also turn round to blame the lingering outage in Lokoja on AEDC, when the actual reason for the outage was quite obvious.”
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Mohammed said, “TCN engineers will complete all projects abandoned as well as those that the contractors portrayed lack of capacity. We have terminated the Walalanbe and Danbatta 132/33KV substation projects in Kano State and handed over the implementation to Kaduna transmission Region.”
Oscarline Onwuemenyi 14 February 2018, Sweetcrude, Abuja – The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) announced that it has attained a…
“Nigerians still consume about 300 million litres of diesel every month and most of this is used to power generators. At the same time, there is about 2,000MW of electricity generating capacity that is unutilized.”
She also noted that whenever there is a system collapse, the number of Start and Stops of those machines increased the machines and turbines’ Equivalent Operating Hours (EOH), triggering more maintenance costs.
The PSRP serves as a road map to the effective optimization of the Nigeria power sector is a series of policy actions, operational governance and financial interventions being implemented by Federal Government over a period of time.
“The transmission capacity would reach 15,000MW with 1,540MW marked for export in 2025. By 2030, the electricity grid will have a 23,000MW wheeling capacity and 28,000MW by 2035 from which 2,000MW will be available for export,” he said.
The company also acknowledged the desire of the people of the State to have significant improvement in power supply, but emphasized that such increase in electricity supply must be matched by an equal level of payment to sustain the company.
This system collapse occurred at about 12:11 p.m on the first day of February and all the electricity distribution companies (Discos) have confirmed to have lost power supply from the grid.
“The President had given a mandate to the ministry and by extension to TCN to improve its capacity to deliver service between the Gencos and the Discos. That mandate had been followed by policy approvals, power recovery programme, the grid expansion programme.”
