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December 16, 2019
The Transmission Company of Nigeria,TCN has assured that transmission wheeling capacity is expected to reachten-thousand megawatts by July 2020.
The company’s Managing Director,Usman Gur Mohammed, who announced this at a quarterly TCN briefing in Abuja,said the massive milestones were achieved between February 2017 and October2019 through the implementation of the Transmission Rehabilitation andExpansion Programme, TREP.
He added that the programme targetsraising the bulk power transmission wheeling capacity from six-thousandmegawatts to ten-thousand megawatts in 2020 and reaching twenty-thousandmegawatts by 2021.Mohammed said the conductors to be used for theline re-conductoring have arrived Nigeria for up-grading major lines in Lagos,Onitsha, Kaduna and many other areas, which will raise the grid capacity toevacuate the ten-thousand megawatts power