Nigeria’s power transmission capacity has reportedly expanded to 8,500 megawatts, according to the Federal Government.
The Punch reported that it did so via the Transmission Company of Nigeria, a company owned by the Federal Government, highlighting the fact that TCN was currently able to evacuate all of the electricity produced by power production companies.
The General Manager of Transmission Service Provider, Ajiboye Oluwagbenga, said that the government was determined to increase Nigeria’s power transmission capacity.
Senior officials from several electricity-producing, transmission, and distribution organizations attended the meeting, which was hosted by the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company.
While the government continued to have complete control over the transmission sector of the industry, the power generation and distribution arms of the sector underwent privatization in November 2013 and are now run by private investors.
Oluwagbenga responded to Gencos’ fears that TCN did not have sufficient capacity to evacuate the volume of power generated by electrical generation firms by refuting the assertion.
“If you’re talking about distribution constraints, that’s there, but thanks to generating, current capacity may be easily wheeled. We are not constrained. We have already started working on evacuation preparations in the few regions where we foresaw limitations,” he said.
When questioned about the transmission company’s existing capacity, he responded that the company had just run a simulation that showed an increase in that capacity to 8,500MW.
He claimed that TCN can easily wheel 8,500MW but wondered why the power generation that is entering the system up to this point always revolves around 4,000MW.
