Chief Adebayo Adelabu, the country’s minister of power, has revealed the Federal Government’s plans to construct a super power grid. In Ibadan, Oyo State, he revealed this information yesterday during the commissioning of a 63MVA, 132/33kV mobile substation at the Eleyele Transmission Substation.
The FGN Power Company, working with Siemens Energy, carried out the project under the Presidential Power Initiative (PPI), which aims to modernize Nigeria’s electrical infrastructure.
According to Adelabu, the National Assembly approved a $18.2 billion loan for Nigeria to construct a new, super-status power grid on Wednesday of this week in an effort to complete the project.
The minister said, “The issue of this national grid, it will be beyond repairing our existing grid to make sure that it works well. It has suffered from years of neglect. It has become old, dilapidated and ineffective.
“Just yesterday (Wednesday), at the National Assembly, we have just approved a $18.2billion loan, to ensure that we install what we call a super grid. Let’s give our legislators a round of applause. A super grid is an alternative grid. It’s a backup grid. It’s a fallover grid.”
According to Adelabu, Nigeria only has one grid as of right now, and whenever there is a bottleneck, the nation will not receive electricity. “But if there is a backup and fall over grid, it’s a matter of redirecting the movement of energy from the main grid to the backup grid,” he stated.
Adelabu gave Nigerians his word that the administration of President Bola Tinubu would see to it that the super grid was implemented. “This new substation will significantly improve the transmission wheeling capacity by 50.4MW, directly benefiting households and businesses in Eleyele and its environs” he said in reference to the commissioning.
