By Tosin Olasehinde
As part of efforts to make power transmission more effective and efficient in Nigeria, the Transmission Company of (TCN) has announced plans to re-conductor all 132kilovolt transmission lines in the country.
Executive Director, Transmission Service Provider (TSP) , Engr. Victor Adewui made the disclosure recently at the 47th Generation/Operation/Distribution Bi-annual planning meeting in Lagos.
Adewunmi who was represented in the meeting by Engr. O.E.A. Ajiboye said that the company was investing heavily on expansion work across all transmission infrastructures in the country .
Earlier, the General Manager, National Control Centre (NCC), Engr. Billiaminu Ishola in his opening remarks, thanked Egbin Power Plc for accepting to host the meeting on short notice.
He said that “We don’t need to propose something that’s fake or something that is not practicable. We should understand our own system and we should do the needful for our own system. We don’t have any other grid than this grid. We need to do the best for this grid; if we can’t solve the electricity problem we will not be able to solve any problem".
Ishola expressed optimism that "there’s hope that this thing would be fixed in some years to come. Anybody that solves the problem of electricity, any government that does it has solved nearly more than 70% of Nigeria problem”.
On his part, the Chief Executive Officer of Egbin Power, Mr. Mokhtar Bounour revealed that his company was able to bring three units back in service even as he emphasized the need for Distribution, Transmission and Generation companies to work more closely together to tackle power challenges.
In his words, “We really need to have that smooth relationship. Nigeria deserves the best and we’ll be doing everything possible to support our community, to support the country, to support people, to support hospitals, to support all people around. This is the values of Egbin, this is the values of the electrical system".
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