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Publish Date : 05-Feb-2018

The federal government has received a 20-year Transmission Expansion Master Plan, a new strategy document developed with funding from the World Bank by a German-based power consultancy firm, Fitchner GmbH, and with which the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) would use to continue its expansion works on the African country's transmission network.

After Fitchner signed off on the master plan, it was handed over to the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, at a ceremony in Abuja by the Interim Managing Director of the TCN, Mr. Usman Mohammed.

It is said to have cost about $2million to the World Bank to execute, and was conceived in 2009 after a national load demand study was conducted by another power consultancy firm, Tractebel of Belgium.

With it, Fashola, said the TCN would be expected to continue to boost its capacity to wheel out power produced in the country.

He added that currently, the transmission capacity of the TCN had rose 7125 megawatts (MW), and that cases of stranded power would be dealt with by the new plan.

The minister noted that future power production capacities like the 3050MW Mambilla hydroelectric plant and others were factored into the plan which he added equally recommended that Nigeria was better served by its current 330 kilovolt (kV) transmission lines.

He added : "The government has given the TCN a mandate to improve its capacity to deliver its responsibilities to the Gencos and Discos. That mandate has not stood alone, it has been followed by policy approvals, and it has been supported by a budgetary commitment. That budgetary support has been helpful. As at yesterday, with that budget, we have been able to recover 502 containers belonging to the TCN, containing equipment for transmission expansion projects that were left at our ports. Those containers have travelled to their various intended destinations - TCN's sites and substations, where work has resumed. Most of the TCN sites are now busy and some have been completed. So, that story of yesterday that TCN can only wheel 5000MW is not true because as at December when we did TCN's simulated capacity, it was 7125MW and it is growing because works haven't stopped."

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