According to Aliyu, the transmission infrastructure is being vandalised after every effort to install new ones; forcing the government to resort to alternative but less efficient ways to supply electricity to affected areas in Maiduguri. He added that TCN officials could not access some vandalised power infrastructure in Shiroro, Niger State, as they are situated within terrorist strongholds.
Electricity supply in Nigeria recorded a marginal drop on Wednesday to 76,375.48MWh, is 0.6% lower than the 76,851.08MWh sent in the previous day. This is according to information from the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).
Under the aegis of the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, the workers among others, decried the management refusal to address complaints arising from 2021 promotion exercise.
The Transmission Company of Nigeria energized the Odukpani – Ikot Ekpene 330kV Double Circuit Transmission lines at about 8.41 pm Sunday, 15th May, 2022, after completing the re-erection of the vandalized tower 104 and lines repair.
The Executive Director, Transmission Service Provider (TSP) at TCN, Engr. Victor Adewumi stated this yesterday when he visited the site of the incident at Oku Iboku Community in Uyo, to assess the level of repair works on the instance of the Minister of Power, Engr. Abubakar D. Aliyu.
According to Omonfoman, the problem is partly due to the non-implementation of cost-reflective tariffs by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), high technical and commercial losses exacerbated by energy theft, and consumers’ apathy to payments because of unfair estimated billing practices by DisCos, and poor metering implementation by DisCos.
According to a statement signed by the GM, Public Affairs, TCN, Ndidi Mbah, the fire incident affected one number 150MVA 330/132kV power transformer was contained and power supply restored to the substation at about 18.46, and subsequently to the affected areas the same day.
The vandalized tower caused a sudden loss of 400MW from the grid causing its collapse on Friday, 8th April 2022. The grid has since been restored.
The media has been awash with reports that TCN has reduced the load allocation to distribution companies. That information is incorrect. The correct position is that TCN can only transmit the quantum of power generated by GenCos through the national grid to distribution load centres nationwide.
In-house engineers of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) have deployed a stop-gap solution to improve grid monitoring and acquisition of data from remote stations (power stations and transmission substations) to the National Control Centre. This was achieved by utilizing the Internet of Things (IoT) solution, and Virtual Private Network (VPN) by using various Internet Service Providers (ISP).
