Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), says it has restored normal bulk transmission of electricity to its Apo transmission substation after a fire outbreak on one of its 45MVA 132/33kV power transformers on Sunday, which resulted from a direct fault from one of AEDC’s 33kV feeders which had a history of incessant trappings, noting that the…
The Federal Government has concessioned the 750 kilowatts (KW) solar power system that will energize the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing (Power Sector) building in Abuja for 10 years to Proserve Energy Services Limited. The Power Purchase and Concession Agreements were presented to the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), Thursday. The Permanent…
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola SAN, has unveiled a book titled ‘Proof of Infrastructure Delivery Across Nigeria” in which he highlight his performance in the last three years, five months and eighteen days. In his address at the book presentation in Abuja, Fashola recalled his maiden briefing on December 8,…
President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday commissioned the Ariaria Market’s 9.5 megawatts (MW) capacity Independent Power Project, built by a private consortium under the Energizing Economies Initiative (EEI) of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) to supply electricity to up to 47,000 shops and small businesses operating at the Ariaria International Market in Aba, Abia State. The…
Our focus this week on the Power Sector Recovery Programme is on the tenth “Action Steps towards PSRP Intervention Implementation”. Which is, Restore proper sector governance: Restore proper sector governance to improve investor confidence. The Action steps towards implementation include: Current BPE directors in DisCio Boards are replaced by qualified independent professionals through a transparent process.…
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has said that it is presently back feeding Kano disco feeders affected by the recent failure of one of its 150MVA 132/33kV power transformers in Kumbotso Transmission Substation from other available 2 x 150MVA transformers in the station to ensure consistent bulk electricity supply, while it effects repairs on…
The Federal Government through the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has commissioned 1×30/40MVA, 132/33KV power substations in Wudil and Dan Agundi Municipal Local Governments of Kano State. Speaking during the commissioning, the Managing Director of TCN, Usman Gur Mohammed, said the contract was awarded more than nine years ago, but the project was abandoned…
The Niger-Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC), has completed work on eight power plants, worth billions of Naira, in order to increase electricity generation in Nigeria. The plants, which were constructed under the Federal Government’s National Independent Power Project (NIPP), included the 750MW Olorunsogo 11, 450MW Sapele, 434MW Geregu 11, 450MW Omotosho 11, 450MW…
In order to address the challenges at the distribution level to be able to take all loads sent out to the national grid, which presently stand at about 5,000MW, the Federal Government through its distribution expansion network programme is committed to ensuring that both transmission and distribution network capacities progress simultaneously, just as it…
At the commissioning of 1.2MW solar-Powered project located at the Water Board facility in the lower Usuma Dam, -Abuja, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN has said the President Muhamadu Buhari’s administration has remained focused in its quest to deliver on promises made to Nigerians. Fashola said that, the first…