The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) on Thursday said that is has achieved 69 percent work on its World Bank Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system project, designed for real time monitoring and control of the nation’s national grid.
Managing Director of TCN, Engineer Sule Abdulaziz stated this while briefing State House Correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
“From our work program, in six months’ times, we are going to finish SCADA. I mentioned that it is 69 per cent completed, and this project is funded by the World Bank.
The World Bank was funding NETAP. In that NETAP, we have $486 million. It is out of it that we are doing the SCADA. By the time we have that SCADA completed, we will be able to see in real time whatever is happening on the grid.
“We are going to finish it. It’s not up to a month since we visited the place they are putting in the Gwagwalada in our new substation.
“We paid a visit there with the people from the World Bank, and the project is going well. Most of the equipment is installed. So by six months, we are going to have SCADA in our grid,” Engineer Abdul said.
The Managing Director noted that with the capacity to conduct real-time monitoring of the power grid, it will help to prevent further vandalism of power lines across Nigeria.
Abdulaziz also said this will significantly enhance the management and control of the national power infrastructure, enabling prompt responses to outages and efficient load management.
The TCN Chief Executive also announced the distribution company target of 10,000 megawatts of electricity in the next two years, if produced by the generation companies, GENCOS.
Abdulaziz revealed that the power company currently can transmit up to 8,500 megawatts of electricity, adding that the highest power generation in Nigeria has been 5,801 megawatts, which is below the transmission capacity.
