FG to boost power supply in North, South-South

Thursday, 01 November 2012

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has explained that the ongoing Jos-Makurdi-Ugwuaji-Ikot Ekpene 330 KV line and its associated 330/132 sub-station in Apir, Benue State, will serve as a major power evacuation link between the stranded generated power in the South-South and the northern part of the country.

The Principal Manager, Transmission, Apir Works Centre, Mr Emmanuel Akpa, stated this when the delegation of the National Good Governance Tour led by the Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, visited the project in Makurdi.

According to a statement by his Press Secretary, Mr Joseph Mutah, the project, which is currently at 78 per cent completion stage, will transmit power to Benue, Kogi, Plateau, Taraba and parts of Nasarawa states.

The statement quoted Mr Akpa as saying the project would equally serve as the much-needed ring close circuit arrangement required for the national grid.

Akpa, however, stressed the need to construct a 33KV switchyard and feeder bay at the transmission station to give room for effective evacuation of power.

“The 330/132KV sub-station design as it is presently being implemented, does not in anyway conform to international accepted standard, as this does not give room for operational flexibility. We pray that additional transformer capacity be added to make way for continuous power flow even when one is undergoing maintenance,”  he advised.

He told the delegation that the Apir Works Centre was carved out of the TCN New Haven Substation, Enugu for prompt response to faults in Benue State and environs.

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