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- At slightest 4 states volition endure large disruptions to their powerfulness proviso arsenic a windstorm has blown down 3 transmission towers
- The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has deployed aggregate contractors to the tract to hole the problems and reerect the towers
- In the meantime, the energy consumers successful the affected states volition person to beryllium connected the alternate plans the TCN has enactment successful place
Legit.ng writer Ruth Okwumbu-Imafidon has implicit a decennary of acquisition successful concern reporting crossed integer and mainstream media.
There volition beryllium large disruptions successful powerfulness proviso crossed respective states arsenic the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has announced plans to re-erect 3 transmission towers.
The 3 towers on the 330kV Kainji-Birnin Kebbi Line were said to person collapsed earlier successful May, aft a dense upwind blew against the towers.
The affected transmission towers person chopped proviso to the Kaduna energy organisation company, and could origin a delayed energy disruption successful Kaduna, Kebbi, Sokoto, and Zamfara states.
Source: UGC
TCN announced that enactment has started already, and that 3 contractors were deployed to re-erect the towers to velocity up the work, arsenic each contractor works connected a abstracted tower.
TCN said successful its connection that this would minimize downtime and accelerate the restoration of powerfulness to the affected areas. It said;
“We regret the inconvenience caused by the operation illness and are committed to restoring afloat proviso arsenic rapidly arsenic possible.”What happens until operation is over
To mitigate the impact, the TCN has enactment plans successful spot to cushion the effect of the disruption of bulk powerfulness proviso to Kaduna Disco.
Channels quality reports that TCN re-routed immoderate areas to get powerfulness proviso from different transmission substations.
The TCN connection reads;
“Sokoto and Birnin Kebbi are presently receiving betwixt 6 MW and 7 MW of bulk energy from the Mando Transmission substation via the 132kV Mando-Zaria-Funtua-Gusau-Talata Mafara-Sokoto-Birnin Kebbi line.”The institution thanked the affected communities for their knowing and promised that the enactment would beryllium accelerated to rebuild the towers and reconstruct the 330kV transmission line.
TCN divided into 2 companies
Legit.ng reported that the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has been split up into 2 companies, marking a large measurement successful the Nigerian government's efforts to modernise the nation's electrical industry.
The boards and absorption of the 2 entities, the Independent System Operator (ISO) and the Transmission Service Provider (TSP), were officially inaugurated past week.
Source: UGC
This is happening much than 20 years aft the TCN was established from the disbanded Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN)
TCN warns of blackout arsenic it commences maintenance
TCN has warned energy consumers successful Abuja and immoderate different areas to expect a six-hour blackout pursuing a scheduled attraction connected 1 of its transmission substations.
The planned attraction volition instrumentality spot astatine the Lokoja 330/132/33kV Transmission Substation, and TCN announced that simultaneous attraction volition beryllium done connected the 60MVA 132/33kV transformer and 150MVA 330/132/33kV transformers.
Legit.ng reported that the powerfulness proviso to Abuja Disco has been disrupted, with astatine slightest six affected areas wherever the energy proviso volition beryllium chopped off.
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Source: Legit.ng
