October 21, (THEWILL) – The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), says its is working on a backup or buffer system to avert national power outage occasioned by incessant collapse of the national grid.
THEWILL reports that the national grid has suffered system failures eight times this year alone. The situation got worst as the grid collapsed thrice last week.
Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, said on Wednesday, that grid collapses are almost inevitable in Nigeria given the deplorable state of the country’s power infrastructure.
Speaking during an interview on Channels Television on Sunday, TCN Managing Director, Sule Abdulaziz blamed aged infrastructure as old as 50 years for the frequent grid collapses in the country.
“Presently, we are doing the scatter system for the whole network and it is funded by the World Bank and the project will take two years to be completed and now, we have done 70% of the project.
“Almost a month ago, we were at Gwagwalada (in Abuja) with the World Bank where we celebrated the project. It is 70 percent completed. Once we have the scatter system, it will reduce the frequency of getting system disturbances. We are trying to upgrade all our transmission lines,
“The honourable minister is now working with the presidency to have that approval. This is what we call the super grid. By the time we have it, even if there is a fault in one transmission line, you can switch to the one so that we have an alternative but now, the type of grid we have, once we have a problem with the line, you have no other line to switch on to”, Abdulaziz said.
