Nigeria’s Ondo transmission substation for completion in five months
Nigeria: The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has said that the 330 kV Akure transmission substation in Ondo State will be completed in five months.
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Nigeria: The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has said that the 330 kV Akure transmission substation in Ondo State will be completed in five months.
The substation is currently at 98 % completion.
This was even as it said efforts were being made to complete the 330 kV transmission line that would supply power to the substation.
The Executive Director of TCN, Victor Adewumi has disclosed the Akure 330/132/33 kV substation has two units of 150 MVA transformer on the 33 0kV section, four outgoing 132 kV line bays, and two units of 60 MVA on the 132 kV side with four outgoing feeder bays as well as six outgoing feeder bays on the 33 kV side, to enable Benin DisCo offtake electricity for its consumers.
According to Adewumi, upon its completion, the substation will be able deliver up to 96 MW of electricity to the people of Ondo State and Ekiti State with the two 60 MVA, 132/33 kV transformers.
The substation, he explained, would receive supply from two 330 kV lines, the Osogbo – Akure line and the Akure-Ihovbor line.
“This will ensure the power source meets the N-1 criteria, such that if there is a problem on one line the station will still receive bulk power supply from the other alternative healthy line,” he said.
He further noted that the line that was originally designed for the substation which is the 330 KV double circuit from Osogbo to Ihovbor with a turn in and out at Akure might not be completed in five months because of the distance of the line and the number of outstanding works.
He however assured that TCN will connect the substation to the existing single-circuit 330 kV line from Benin to Osogbo which is not too far from the new Akure substation, by turning it into the substation and out from the substation.
This he said, will be completed in five months enabling the energizing, testing, and commissioning of the project.
Source: Zawya
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