According to the Transmission Company of Nigeria, Investments by the Federal Government and multilateral agencies on electricity transmission infrastructure have risen to $1.63bn.
The investment which falls under the Transmission Expansion Rehabilitation Programme, led to a rise in Nigeria’s power transmission capacity from about 5,000 Megawatts three years ago to 8,100MW.
Managing Director, TCN, Usman Mohammed said, that in 2015, the capacity of power distribution companies was about 3,500MW, while those of transmission and generation companies were 5,000MW and 4,000MW respectively.
Explaining further he said “As of December 2017, we did a combined peak of 5,224MW. For transmission, the capacity moved from 5,000MW to 7,124MW in December 2017. And generation moved to slightly above 7,000MW.
He however said they did a simulation about two weeks ago and the capacity of transmission has moved to 8,100MW.”