The Minister of Power, Chief Adebayo Adelabu, has expressed the readiness of the federal government to tackle the incessant grid collapses in the country.
THE WHISTLER recalls that Nigeria recorded 12 grid collapses in 2024, which threw cities and villages into total darkness.
But Adelabu in a statement issued by his Special
The Special Adviser to the Minister on Strategic Communications and Media Relations, Bolaji Tunji, in Abuja on Thursday, 24 substations will be constructed under the 2nd phase of the Siemens project to strengthen the grid capacity.
The minister, who stated that the pilot stage of the Siemens project had reached about 95 per cent completion, noted that the government had installed in 11 states.
Adelabu named the benefiting communities as Okene, Kogi; Amukpe, Delta; Ihovbor, Edo; Apo, Abuja; Maryland, Lagos; Potiskum, Yobe; Ajah, Lagos; Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi; Jebba, Niger; Kwanar-dangora, Kano; UI, Oyo; Sapade, Ogun States.
He said, “On the issue of incessant grid collapse, efforts are continuing to tackle the problems. It is a known fact that over the years, the infrastructure has been neglected and allowed to decay to a state of dilapidation. These are being gradually tackled. The Siemens project is one of the ways of tackling this.
“The pilot stage of the Siemens project was to ensure the installation of 10 power transformers and the mobile substations across the country and so far, is about 95 per cent completion.
“So far, we have installed eight power transformers and 5 mobile substations in the following States; Okene, Kogi; Amukpe, Delta; Ihovbor, Edo; Apo, Abuja; Maryland, Lagos; Potiskum, Yobe; Ajah, Lagos; Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi; Jebba, Niger; Kwanar-dangora, Kano; UI, Oyo; Sapade, Ogun.
“The 2nd phase will see the construction of 14 brownfield substations and 20 greenfield substations. The agreement has already been signed for the construction of five substations starting Q1, already.
“This will further strengthen the grid capacity and reduce instances of grid collapse. Not only that, the SCADA project is still ongoing’’.
He also clarified that when the present administration came on stream, the generation stagnated at about 4000 megawatts,
The minister said within that period till date, over 1000 megawatts had been added to the grid reaching an all-time, three-year high of 5,528 megawatts.
FG Moves To Tackle Grid Collapses With Construction Of 24 Substations is first published on The Whistler Newspaper
Source: The Whistler
