FG receives 655 abandoned power equipment

The Federal government has disclosed that it has received 655 out of over 800 containers of power equipment stranded in the nation’s ports.
The Managing Director of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN),Usman Gur, who disclosed this in Abuja recently, regretted that some of the containers were in the ports for over 15years,while others had been auctioned.
He also said since he assumed the mantle of leadership of the organisation last year, the TCN has delivered least cost transmission expansion masterplan and was able to present to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission the generation adequacy report
“We achieved frequency control of 49.50HZ to 50:50HZ and developed a plan that will enable us move to 49:80HZ to 50:20HZ.We have raised the capacity of the grid which used to be only 5500MW to 7124MW as at December 2017 when the last simulation was done.
“We have delivered a report that reduced the bloated structure of Transmission Company of Nigeria. We have restructured our project management technique through the decentralization and creation of four project management units’’