July 30, (THEWILL) – The Federal Government has procured new transformers at the cost of €63 million to boost regular supply of electricity in the country.
The first batch of the transformers which would arrive Nigeria in September 2022, have successfully undergone factory acceptance test at Siemens’ transformers factory in Trento, Italy.
In a statement, the Special Assistant to the Minister of Power, Mallam Isa Sanusi, said the Managing Director of Federal Government of Nigeria Power Company (FGN-Power), Kenny Anuwe, led a delegation that included engineers from Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) to witness the factory acceptance test conducted on July 28, 2022 in Trento, Italy.
The factory acceptance test paves the way for Siemens Energy to start delivering the transformers to Nigeria.
Earlier, the Minister of Power, Engineer Abubakar Aliyu, had led a delegation to Germany in April, where he paid visits to Siemens Energy factories in Berlin and Frankfurt, and held meetings with the senior leadership of Siemens Energy on the need to fast-track the delivery of the early orders that will kick-start the transformation of Nigeria’s electricity.
“The successful factory acceptance test shows that Nigeria’s engagement with Siemens Energy is on track. It also shows the Federal Government’s commitment to addressing Nigeria’s electricity challenges”, the minister said.
Recall that in December 2021, the Minister of Finance Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed and the Minister of Power, Engineer Abubakar Aliyu, secured the approval of the Federal Executive Council of €63 million for the procurement of equipment to boost power supply under the Presidential Power Initiative (PPI) — whose first phase will provide 10 mobile power sub-stations and 10 mega transformers that will be deployed across the country to boost and stabilise electricity supply.
In 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari initiated the Presidential Power Initiative (PPI) that will enable Siemens Energy to upgrade Nigeria’s electricity systems.
The first phase of the PPI seeks to modernise, rehabilitate and expand the national grid by investing in the electricity value chain, including generation, transmission and distribution systems.
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