The Transmission Corporate of Nigeria has introduced that the continued maintenance to the broken transmission layout that resulted in a power outage in northern Nigeria shall be finished through Sunday, 3 November 2024.
It famous, then again, that supplementary measures had been applied to transmit 400 megawatts to positive subjects inside the after 24 hours.
The Managing Director of TCN, Sule Abdulaziz, disclosed this building at a press briefing on Tuesday in Abuja, updating Nigerians on efforts to revive electrical energy to the northern area.
On 22 October, TCN reported an influence outage within the north-east, north-west, and portions of north-central Nigeria next the 330-kilovolt Ugwuaji–Apir double circuit transmission traces 1 and a pair of tripped.
As well as, TCN reported that the Shiroro-Kaduna layout have been vandalised, eminent to lowered bulk electrical energy provide to Kaduna, Kano, and alternative primary towns within the north.
Two days after, TCN said {that a} snapped 330kv transmission layout within the swampy jungle of Igumale, Benue Condition, additional contributed to the power outage.
On Monday, TCN defined that lack of confidence had behind schedule maintenance however confident it used to be running tirelessly to revive the majority energy provide.
President Bola Tinubu additionally directed TCN to expedite maintenance and mandated the Nationwide Safety Helper, Nuhu Ribadu, to handover safety backup.
Offering an replace, the TCN MD stated the corporate had deployed its engineers to finish the recovery and is ready to distribute roughly 500 to 600 megawatts to the northern area through Sunday.
He said, “Restoring such a traces will permit TCN to wheel about 400MW of energy via that hall. TCN may be intensifying efforts to fix and repair the second one layout on Ugwuaji-Apir through Sunday, 3 November 2024.
“This may allow TCN to wheel a considerable quantum of energy from Apir to Jos, Kaduna, and Kano.
“Every time the Shiroro-Kaduna layout is out, the one alternative gateway old to provide the northern area is throughout the Ugwuaji–Apir transmission traces.
“Sadly, that layout used to be additionally vandalised, depart us with best traces one and two to provide energy to that area.
“For layout two, just about 5 spans of the layout had been vandalised. Our engineers are running to revive that layout, however because of safety considerations, they require an army escort.
“By means of 6 pm, our engineers need to loose the department for protection, go back to a reserve location for the night time, and resume paintings within the morning.
“As of now, layout one, which is able to lift 400 megawatts, will have to be able between these days and the following day.
“The second one layout, with 5 spans vandalised, is anticipated to be able through Sunday.
“So once we complete these two lines, we will be able to transmit at least 500 to 600 megawatts to the northern region.”