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 a press release he made obtainable to our correspondent on Tuesday.
In response to 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 not help the imaginative and prescient for the ability sector.
“If we take a look at the energy, the capability and the age of our present community on the nationwide grid, it can not actually help our imaginative and prescient for the ability sector therefore the necessity for the development of the Western and Japanese tremendous grid.
“Although we’ve got been on this since my resumption, I also can inform you that the President is in full help of this as a result of this can enhance our transmission community, stabilise the grid and likewise broaden the capability and the flexibleness 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 saved collapsing as a result of it was not properly structured.
Nnaji acknowledged that the ability ministry underneath his watch had years in the past sought the approval of the Federal Govt Council to construct what he referred to as an excellent grid, a 765KV community that will rise above the present 330 KV.
In response to him, the 765KV is massive 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 might wheel energy from Manbilla when accomplished.
“One other vital space in Nigeria’s energy sector is the transmission community. I imagine that having the nationwide grid the way in which we’ve got it nonetheless going to be an issue. First, it’s not strong, and it’s not properly structured. My advocacy is for a number of grids, autonomous however related to the nationwide grid. In order that the nationwide grid nonetheless operates, and it will likely be extra strong. It should start to treatment the common incident of the failure of the nationwide grid.
“After I was in authorities, we requested the Federal Govt Council to approve what we referred to as an excellent grid, a 765KV community that may type of rise above the present 330KV community. Proper now, Nigeria has 330KV and 132KV, however none of them is de facto strong. 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 numerous vegetation and transmit it to wherever we wish it,” he disclosed.
The Chairman of Geometric Energy recommended the incumbent energy minister, Adebayo Adelabu, for reviving the tremendous grid venture.
The PUNCH remembers that the nationwide grid collapsed greater than 5 occasions in 2024, plunging Nigerians into darkness.