Nigeria may no longer witness national grid collapse – Adelabu

Nigeria may no longer witness national grid collapse – Adelabu

The Nigerian Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, said the
addition of 700 megawatts to the country’s national grid may bring an end to
grid collapses.

 

Adelabu disclosed this when he received the EU Ambassador to
Nigeria, Gautier Mignot, in his office in Abuja.

 

According to a statement released on Sunday by the
minister’s spokesperson, Bolaji Tunji, Adelabu said the transmission capacity
was achieved through the implementation of the Presidential Power Initiative,
known as the Siemens project, which secured $2.3 billion in financing to revamp
and transform its transmission segments.

 

Giving an update on the project, Adelabu said the pilot of
the initiative is 90 percent complete.

 

“We have installed almost 90 percent of this, and they are
working.

 

“And that has improved transmission capacity by over 700
megawatts, which is the result of what we are seeing now in terms of relative
stability in the transmission grid.”

 

He further said that, “We have almost completed the pilot
phase of that project, which involved the importation, installation,
commissioning, and energization of 10 power transformers across the country and
another set of 10 mobile substations.”

 

He explained that before the installation of the 700 MW
electricity capacity, whenever the national peak reached 5,000, it became
unstable and led to collapse.

 

“Before now, at the time the supply to the grid entered
5,000, the grid was unstable; it shook, collapsed, and all that.

 

“Now, we are having an average of 5,000, 7,000, and 8,000
megawatts. So, it’s not by accident. It’s because of these activities of the
government.”

 

He added that the country in recent times has achieved two
milestones: the highest average of 20,000 kilowatt-hours of daily power
consumption and the highest distribution of energy at 5,801 MW.

 

“Over 20,000 kilowatt-hours it achieved, which has never
been achieved before.

 

“The Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry has transmitted
and distributed the highest energy of 5,801.63 MW as the latest feat.”

 

The development comes as the nation has plunged into partial
darkness at least two times this year over grid disturbances. Although the
Transmission Company of Nigeria said there have not been grid collapses in
2025,

 

Meanwhile, TCN confirmed that the country experienced at
least twelve grid collapses in 2024 alone.

Source: Nigeria may no longer witness national grid collapse – Adelabu

 - NigerianEye
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