ELECTRICITY NIGERIA

…restores supply to Cross River State The Transmission Company of Nigeria energized the Odukpani – Ikot Ekpene 330kV Double Circuit Transmission lines at about 8.41 pm Sunday, 15th May, 2022, after completing the re-erection of the vandalized tower 104 and lines repair. Consequently, TCN has commenced the evacuation of over 400MW stranded power generation from […]

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has completed work on the 330kV Akure Transmission Substation in Ondo State, and is accelerating efforts to complete the 330kV transmission line that would supply power to the substation. The Executive Director, Transmission Service Provider, TCN, Engr. Victor Adewumi, stated this today, during the on-the-spot assessment of the facility

Reconstruction works on the vandalized transmission Tower Number 104 on Odukpani – Ikot Ekpene 330kV double-circuit transmission line in Akwa Ibom has been completed, while work is ongoing to fortify other towers minimally vandalized along the same line route, to enable the restringing and tensioning of the 330kV DC transmission line, before it is energized.

Nigeria’s search for increased electric power supply has received a major boost with the emergence of a new electric distribution company in Aba, Abia State, bringing the number of electricity distribution firms in the country to 12. The previous ones are located in Abuja, Jos, Kano, Ibadan, Kaduna, Port Harcourt, Benin, Yola, Enugu, Ikeja and

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) says its 150MVA, 330/132/33 kV power transformer in Ayede Substation caught fire in the early hours of Wednesday morning. TCN in a statement by General Manager, Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah disclosed that the fire has been contained and its engineers were working to isolate the burnt circuits, to enable

With stakeholders in the energy sector continually proffering solutions to the perennial collapse of the national grid, which often throws the nation into darkness, Monica Maduekwe, co-founder of PUTTRU, Africa’s foremost digital platform, which connects energy companies in the continent to global financiers, has canvassed an urgent decentralisation of the activities Transmission Company of Nigeria,

TCN Management led by the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of TCN, Engr. Dr. Sule Ahmed Abdulaziz today, undertook an on-the-spot assessment of the vandalized Tower No. 104, along Odukpani/Ikot Ekpene 330kV transmission line in Oku Iboku Community, Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. The vandalized tower caused a sudden loss of

The Transmission Company of Nigeria wishes to notify consumers of electricity that the current load shedding being experienced nationwide is as a result of very low power generation by the Generation Companies (GENCOs) for TCN to wheel through the transmission grid to distribution companies nationwide. The media has been awash with reports that TCN has

TCN has upgraded its Egbin 330/132/33kV Transmission Substation with the installation of a 60MVA 132/33kV power transformer. The transformer which was installed by TCN in-house engineers was energized at about 13.05pm on the 2nd of March 2022. With the new 60MVA power transformer, the substation capacity to supply bulk electricity to Ikeja Electricity Distribution company