The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has disclosed that it has made provision for over 18 transmission projects that would add 1,100 megawatts (MW) of electricity to the national grid by January 2018.
The information was related to the public, on Wednesda,y by the Managing Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Usman Gur Mohammed, in Abuja.
While touring some of the sub-stations in Apo and Katampe in Abuja, and Suleja, in Niger state, Mohammed said the projects would be completed and commissioned from December 2017 to the end of January 2018.
He noted that by January 2018, it would start to re-conduct transmission lines to ensure the added power capacities were added after the first quarter of next year, noting that the projects were being executed under the Transmission Rehabilitation and Expansion Programme (TREP), which sought to expand the grid to 20,000MW in the next four years.
“In line with our strategy, we are completing, across the country, several projects, which would cumulatively add over 1,000mw transformer capacity to the grid before January 31, 2018. The Nigerian Electricity Transmission Access Project (NETAP), which is one of the projects under REP, was successfully negotiated and finalised with the World Bank on December 8,” he explained.
