In a bid to cease incessant nationwide grid collapse, the Federal Authorities has concluded plans to assemble what it referred to as an excellent grid.
The media aide to the Minister of Energy, Bolaji Tunji, disclosed this in an announcement he made out there to our correspondent on Tuesday.
In accordance with him, the ability minister, Adebayo Adelabu, spoke in China the place he attended the China-Africa Cooperation Summit.
Adelabu had condemned the nationwide grid, saying its current state can’t assist the imaginative and prescient for the ability sector.
“If we have a look at the energy, the capability and the age of our present community on the nationwide grid, it can’t actually assist our imaginative and prescient for the ability sector therefore the necessity for the development of the Western and Japanese tremendous grid.
“Although we now have been on this since my resumption, I also can let you know that the President is in full assist of this as a result of it will enhance our transmission community, stabilise the grid and likewise broaden the capability and the pliability of the nationwide grid,” he acknowledged.
Adelabu stated 90 per cent of the approval required is in place and could be concluded quickly.
The PUNCH reported in Could {that a} former Minister of Energy, Barth Nnaji, advocated for an excellent grid to finish the incessant collapse of the nationwide energy grid.
Nnaji stated the present nationwide grid stored collapsing as a result of it was not nicely structured.
Nnaji acknowledged that the ability ministry below his watch had years in the past sought the approval of the Federal Government Council to construct what he referred to as an excellent grid, a 765KV community that may rise above the prevailing 330 KV.
In accordance with him, the 765KV is giant sufficient to take energy from high-capacity vegetation just like the Manbilla Energy Plant.
He revealed that the nation has but to have a transmission community that would wheel energy from Manbilla when accomplished.
“One other essential space in Nigeria’s energy sector is the transmission community. I imagine that having the nationwide grid the best way we now have it nonetheless going to be an issue. First, it’s not sturdy, and it’s not nicely structured. My advocacy is for a number of grids, autonomous however linked to the nationwide grid. In order that the nationwide grid nonetheless operates, and it is going to be extra sturdy. It’ll start to treatment the common incident of the failure of the nationwide grid.
“After I was in authorities, we requested the Federal Government Council to approve what we referred to as an excellent grid, a 765KV community that can type of rise above the prevailing 330KV community. Proper now, Nigeria has 330KV and 132KV, however none of them is admittedly sturdy. However the 765KV community can be crucial to take energy from energy vegetation such because the Manbilla that has been on for some time. Over 10,000 megawatts of energy will come from Manbilla. So, the query is, which transmission infrastructure will take that energy suppose that we end it now? We’d like an excellent grid to take that energy in order that Nigeria has the power to take energy from varied vegetation and transmit it to wherever we would like it,” he disclosed.
The Chairman of Geometric Energy counseled the incumbent energy minister, Adebayo Adelabu, for reviving the tremendous grid undertaking.
The PUNCH remembers that the nationwide grid collapsed greater than 5 occasions in 2024, plunging Nigerians into darkness.
