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The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, has assured improvements in the country’s power generation and supply.
This follows the receipt of electricity transformers and substations for the $2.3 billion Siemens power project.
The minister, in a statement on Sunday, said
"Nigerians will start seeing improvements in the strength of the national grid and the efficiency and effectiveness of the distribution companies.
"We are on top of it, and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is exceptionally committed to seeing these projects come to reality."
He explained that the pilot phase involved the offshore importation of ten power transformers and ten mobile substations to be used as a Proof of Concept for these projects.
"All these items have arrived in the country; five out of the 10 transformers have been installed at various locations across the country.
“We have also installed three out of 10 mobile substations, with seven more to go. Once we finish installing them, we will commission and energise them. At that point, Nigerians will begin to see the impact of this project,” he said.
Adelabu noted that the next phases of the project included transforming the transmission segment or network by expanding the transmission capacity and strengthening the transmission to avoid the current fragility that leads to persistent grid collapse.
This, he said, would involve upgrading about 14 existing power transmission substations as well as the establishment of 22 new transmission substations.
“It’s going to involve the installation of new transmission power lines, the reconducting of some lines, and the conduct of some existing power lines, totalling almost 14,000 kilometres as the transmission segments. The same thing applies to the distribution segments, whereby our existing injection substations will be enhanced in the distribution companies.
“There will be replacements and upgrades of 33KV and 11KV transformers, numbering about 6,000 transformers. We will also reconduct and install new lines, totalling almost 22,000km of lines.
“So, I believe that once we are done with this first phase of the presidential power initiatives, called Siemens projects, Nigerians will start seeing improvements in the strength of the national grid and the efficiency and effectiveness of the distribution companies. We are on top of it, and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is exceptionally committed to seeing these projects come to reality,” he maintained.
