The Managing Director and CEO of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Sule Abdulaziz has disclosed that infrastructure challenges besieging the power sector, noting that much of the equipment is outdated.
Abdulaziz revealed this during an appearance on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics program where he gave insights to the attributed the recurrent grid failures in the country
“The transmission system needs a lot of investment and for so many years in this country that sector has been neglected, Most of the equipment we use is 50 years or 40 years. So it is not possible for those infrastructure to work perfectly.
On what the TCN is doing to prevent future collapse, Abdulaziz said it will implement a backup system to prevent nationwide blackouts in the event of a national grid collapse.
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“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
He said, “We are trying to upgrade all our transmission lines,” adding that although the government might not have enough money for the project, the TCN has been working in partnership with private companies to mobilize funds.
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