By Stella Odueme
The Transmission Company of Nigeria TCN has announced a decline in grid disturbances system collapses in its operation by 76.8 per cent.
According to TCN, despite the growing activities of vandals that has been resulting to the grid disturbances, there is a reduction in grid system collapses which has increased grid stability in recent years.
TCN attributed the improvement to the continuous effort by the management under Engr. Sule Abdulaziz to strategically expand the grid while harnessing in-house capacities to find solutions to grid stability, pending the deployment of SCADA/EMS.
A statement by TCN General Manager, Public Affairs, Mrs. Ndidi Mbah at the weekend in Abuja insisted that in recent years, the number of grid disturbances/system collapses has gradually reduced, contrary to popular opinion.
“Clearly, between 2020 to date (five years), we recorded fourteen total and six partial grid disturbances totalling twenty (20), which represents a 76.47 per cent reduction in grid disturbance, when compared to the previous five years, (2015 to 2019) where we had sixty-four total and twenty-one partial grid disturbances, totalling eighty-five (85) times.
“This improvement is, however, not unconnected to the continuous effort by the management under Engr. Sule Abdulaziz to strategically expand the grid while harnessing in-house capacities to find solutions to grid stability, pending the deployment of SCADA/EMS.”
TCN however assured that it will continued to work hard to increase the grid stability.
“No doubt there is room for improvement, and TCN will continue to work hard to further reduce the number of grid disturbances to the barest minimum,” the statement stressed.
