TCN seeks end to transmission challenges with $2 B
Federal Government, through the Transmission Company of Nigeria has completed 105 projects between 2015 and 2022 to strengthen power transmission networks.
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Nigeria: Federal Government, through the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has completed about 105 projects between 2015 and 2022 to strengthen power transmission networks.
Another $2 B worth of projects funded by international donors, especially Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), African Development Bank, World Bank and French Development Agency, are similarly targeted to overhaul the national grid.
In 2013, the Federal Government took a bold step of privatising the power sector. The change in ownership was against the backdrop of the despondent nature of the sector, which affected standards of living and crippled economic growth.
Although Nigeria has about 13,000 MW generation capacity, bottlenecks have hindered dispatch to homes and industries as less than 5,000 MW is transmitted and distributed.
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of TCN Dr Sule Ahmed Abdulaziz said the organisation is embarking on a facelift of its facilities across the country to address prevailing challenges, adding that the agency is strategically transforming TCN through the upgrade of facilities, prompt maintenance, rehabilitation, grid expansion, and manpower development.
“These were accomplished despite the challenges such as insurgency, vandalism, communal clashes and encroachment of transmission Right of Way (RoW),” he said.
The company’s head said TCN has also awarded contracts for several new transmission lines as part of its priority projects, while some of the construction works are ongoing others are at different stages of completion. These include reconductoring 16 transmission lines, and 17 others under the Service Level Agreement (SLA) projects to further reinforce the grid for optimal evacuation and transmission of bulk electricity.
Source: The Guardian
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