The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, says it has capacity to transmit 6,000 megawatts of electricity to distribution-load centres nationwide.
The Managing Director of the TCN, Mr Sule Abdulaziz, who stated this on Sunday – said that in the last three years, the TCN had upgraded several sub-stations.
He said that the company had also built new sub-stations funded through its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) and donor agencies.
The TCN boss said that the company had installed new transformers to ensure an increase in capacity.
According to him, the last grid simulation test carried out revealed that the Nation has a capacity of 8100 Megawatts.
In March 2021, TCN successfully wheeled 5,801 MegaWatts from generating companies to distribution-load centres nationwide.
He said the TCN was keen of meeting the objectives of the Nigerian Presidential Power Initiative (PPI) as undertaken by the Federal Government
Mr Abulaziz said the initiative aims to resolve existing challenges in the nation’s power sector and further expand the capacity of the transmission and distribution networks to achieve an operational capacity of 25,000 megawatts