Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, has been speaking on how the addition of 700 megawatts to Nigeria’s national grid may bring a closure to incessant grid collapses.
Adelabu made this disclosure when he received the EU Ambassador to Nigeria, Gautier Mignot, in his office in Abuja.
According to a statement released by the minister’s spokesperson, Bolaji Tunji, Adelabu said the transmission capacity was achieved through the implementation of the Presidential Power Initiative, known as the Siemens project, which acquired $2.3 billion in financing to boost and transform its transmission segments.
Giving an update on the project, the minister of power stated that the pilot of the initiative is 90 percent complete.
“We have installed almost 90 percent of this, and they are working.
“And that has improved transmission capacity by over 700 megawatts, which is the result of what we are seeing now in terms of relative stability in the transmission grid.”
Continuing, Adelabu said that, “We have almost completed the pilot phase of that project, which involved the importation, installation, commissioning, and energization of 10 power transformers across the country and another set of 10 mobile substations.
“Before now, at the time the supply to the grid entered 5,000, the grid was unstable; it shook, collapsed, and all that.
“Now, we are having an average of 5,000, 7,000, and 8,000 megawatts. So, it’s not by accident. It’s because of these activities of the government.”
He further said that the nation in recent times has achieved two milestones: the highest average of 20,000 kilowatt-hours of daily power consumption and the highest distribution of energy at 5,801 MW.
“Over 20,000 kilowatt-hours it achieved, which has never been achieved before.
“The Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry has transmitted and distributed the highest energy of 5,801.63 MW as the latest feat.”
