The Minister of power, Adebayo Adelabu, has disclosed that plans are ongoing for additional 150 megawatts of electricity to the National grid before January 2025.
Adelabu who disclosed this at the Presidential Villa on Wednesday, said the move will lead to relative stability of the National grid.
The Minister who was part of the bilateral meeting between President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his German counterpart, Frank Walter Steinmeier, said the part way to steady power supply is collaboration, partnership and revamping of the entire grid.
He said Nigeria has bilateral relationship with the Republic of Germany in the area of energy and electricity, adding: “What is key now is collaboration and partnership, and the flagship of this bilateral relationship has to do with what we call the Siemens project, which is our presidential power Initiative, where Simiens is actually implementing the Brownfield and Greenfield transmission substations of the Presidential Power initiative.”
According to the Minister, since December 2023 when the agreement was signed “We have completed the pilot phase of this project, up to 80 percent. This involves the importation, the installation and commissioning of 10 power transformers and 10 powermobile substations.
He added that “there have been imported and installed. We have just about two left to be commissioned before the end of the year. The positive impact of this is that it has added nothing less than 750 megawatts to our transmission grid capacity, which is why the relative stability that we are seeing in the grid today is the direct positive impact of the pilot stage completion.
So, we believe that before end of the year, additional 150 megawatts capacity is going to be added upon completion of the entire pilot phase. We are officially entering into the phase one stage of this project, which involves rehabilitation of 14 brownfield existing substations and the establishment of 23 new Greenfield stations across the length and breadth of this country.
