In a bid to ban incessant nationwide grid fall down, the Federal Executive has concluded plans to assemble what it known as a really perfect grid.
The media aide to the Minister of Energy, Bolaji Tunji, disclosed this in a remark he made to be had to our correspondent on Tuesday.
In line with him, the facility minister, Adebayo Adelabu, spoke in China the place he attended the China-Africa Cooperation Top.
Adelabu had condemned the nationwide grid, pronouncing its provide condition can not aid the visual for the facility sector.
“If we take a look at the energy, the power and the day of our current community at the nationwide grid, it can not truly aid our visual for the facility sector therefore the desire for the development of the Western and Jap tremendous grid.
“Though we have been on this since my resumption, I can also tell you that the President is in full support of this because this will improve our transmission network, stabilise the grid and also expand the capacity and the flexibility of the national grid,” he said.
Adelabu mentioned 90 in line with cent of the benevolence required is in playground and could be concluded quickly.
The PUNCH reported in Might {that a} former Minister of Energy, Barth Nnaji, advocated for a really perfect grid to finish the incessant fall down of the nationwide energy grid.
Nnaji mentioned the stream nationwide grid saved collapsing as it was once now not neatly structured.
Nnaji said that the facility ministry beneath his attend to had years in the past sought the benevolence of the Federal Govt Council to create what he known as a really perfect grid, a 765KV community that will arise above the present 330 KV.
In line with him, the 765KV is immense enough quantity to pull energy from high-capacity crops just like the Manbilla Energy Plant.
He open that the rustic has but to have a transmission community that would wheel energy from Manbilla when finished.
“Any other vital segment in Nigeria’s energy sector is the transmission community. I consider that having the nationwide grid the best way we now have it nonetheless taking to be a disease. First, it’s not powerful, and it’s not neatly structured. My advocacy is for more than one grids, self sustaining however hooked up to the nationwide grid. In order that the nationwide grid nonetheless operates, and it’ll be extra powerful. It’s going to start to recovery the habitual incident of the failure of the nationwide grid.
“When I was in government, we asked the Federal Executive Council to approve what we called a super grid, a 765KV network that will kind of rise above the existing 330KV network. Right now, Nigeria has 330KV and 132KV, but none of them is really robust. But the 765KV network will be very important to take power from power plants such as the Manbilla that has been on for a while. Over 10,000 megawatts of power will come from Manbilla. So, the question is, which transmission infrastructure will take that power suppose that we finish it now? We need a super grid to take that power so that Nigeria has the ability to take power from various plants and transmit it to wherever we want it,” he disclosed.
The Chairman of Geometric Energy counseled the incumbent energy minister, Adebayo Adelabu, for reviving the tremendous grid venture.
The PUNCH remembers that the nationwide grid collapsed greater than 5 instances in 2024, plunging Nigerians into darkness.