On Tuesday the Management of Transmission Company of Nigeria
(TCN) announced that Nigeria had achieved a new electricity
transmission peak of 4545MW through its national network.
The Nation notes that according to the statement by Seun Olagunju,
the General Manager on public affairs, the feat was achieved at
21.45hrs on Monday.
The previous power transmission peak of 4517MW was attained on
December 23, 2012.
Previously TCN informed that electricity wheeling to the Distribution
companies has improved to over 4000MW due to improvement in fuel
supply to the power generation plants.
The organization says that it will continue to work towards
enhancing its power wheeling capability and reliability of the network
to be able to deliver more quality electricity from the Generation
plants to the Distribution companies nationwide.
TCN Managment states: “Expanding this support both bilaterally with
the individual countries and to the Multinational Joint Task Force,
which the Lake Chad Basin countries and Benin are in the process of
standing up to coordinate their counter Boko Haram campaign.” Reuters estimated that Nigeria, with a population of around 170 million, has installed power capacity that fluctuates between around 6,000 to just over 7,000 MW, but experiences severe electricity
shortages that are crippling its growth.
Source - Naij.com
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