Category: Power
SDG4: Egbin Power boosts education investment, offers scholarship to host communities
The beneficiaries in this year’s edition, drawn from public schools in the host communities – Egbin, Ijede and Ipakan – were presented with the scholarship awards which covers all school expenses, including tuition, textbooks, and school uniforms in addition to other educational items.
Milestone achievement: Nigerian power grid maintains uninterrupted stability for over 400 consecutive days
This milestone signifies a remarkable advancement in the nation’s efforts at strengthening its power infrastructure and ensuring a reliable and dependable electricity supply to distribution load centres for onward distribution to electricity customers nationwide.
Senegalese power plant opts for Wärtsilä long-term service agreement to ensure supply reliability
The plant dispatches power to the national electricity distributor Senelec, and reliability of supply is essential. The Wärtsilä agreement is designed to ensure that the customer’s commercial and contractual terms and conditions are met. The order was booked by Wärtsilä in March 2023.
Manufacturers oppose World Bank-funded Bid for supply of smart electricity meters
In the letter, which was jointly signed by the Acting President of the manufacturers’ association, Ademola Agoro, and the Secretary, Duro Omogbenigun, the association urged the BPP DG to direct the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to honour the pending four million meters supply contract awarded to its members since November 2022 under the Phase 1 of the NMMP.
Snake Island Free Trade Zone gets a solar power plant
According to Nigerdock, the solar power plant is primarily intended to reduce the environmental footprint of the Snake Island Integrated Free Zone.
TCN urges public to disregard false reports published by The Nation newspaper on power generation
We regret to observe the information contained in the newspaper publications and the purported reference to a system disturbance were false and utterly baseless.
TCN raises transmission wheeling capacity to improve power generation
TCNs capacity and capability to transport bulk power is presently above the current bulk power genrested into the grid and quantum power being taken by the DisCos.
Ikeja Electric collaborates with NSCDC on safety of equipment for stable electricity
While applauding their efforts, Osadare stated that it was important to let the Agency know that vandalism is still on the increase; hence the need to urgently intervene.
Power outage looms as truck hits TCN transmission tower in Abuja
The current restricted outage situation in parts of Abuja, is caused by a truck loaded with gravel that lost control and crashed into TCN’s 132kV transmission tower No 20, supplying bulk electricity to the 100MVA part of the Katampe Substation and 2x60MVA GIS Central Area Substation.”
TCN delivers 22 power transformers, other transmission equipment to its Ojo Store
A large number of the equipment still in the store was recently inspected by members of the Governing Board of TCN and Management. The massive and unprecedented stockpile of various kinds of transmission equipment presently are gradually being moved to project sites for maintenance, new projects and upgrading of existing transmission lines and substation.