{"id":322047,"date":"2021-03-02T20:12:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T19:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=322047"},"modified":"2021-03-02T20:12:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T19:12:38","slug":"electricity-nigerias-power-sector-records-new-peak-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=322047","title":{"rendered":"Electricity: Nigeria&#8217;s power sector records new peak transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"description\" wp_automatic_readability=\"76.093517534538\">\n<h3><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1256637 jetpack-lazy-image\" alt=\"Electricity\" width=\"640\" height=\"431\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Electricity-distribution-in-Nigeria.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Electricity-distribution-in-Nigeria.jpg?resize=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Electricity-distribution-in-Nigeria.jpg?resize=58%2C39&amp;ssl=1 58w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Electricity-distribution-in-Nigeria.jpg?resize=260%2C175&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Electricity-distribution-in-Nigeria.jpg?resize=193%2C130&amp;ssl=1 193w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Electricity-distribution-in-Nigeria.jpg?resize=115%2C77&amp;ssl=1 115w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Electricity-distribution-in-Nigeria.jpg?resize=560%2C377&amp;ssl=1 560w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Electricity-distribution-in-Nigeria.jpg?resize=640%2C431&amp;is-pending-load=1#038;ssl=1\" data-temp-aztec-id=\"d8792d76-6a12-492e-a7c0-37a699890617\"><\/h3>\n<p>The Nigerian power sector yesterday received another boost as the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, disclosed the attainment of new peak transmission.<\/p>\n<p>The company in a statement made available to Vanguard stated that it successfully transmitted an enhanced peak generation of 5,801.60Megawatts, MW, at 9:30 pm on March 1st, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe latest peak generation was transmitted at a frequency was 50.09Hz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis value is higher than 5,615.40MW recorded on February 28, 2021, by 186.20MW,\u201d the company added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the TCN had recorded an initial peak transmission on the 6th January 2021 and 7th January 2021 of 5,552.40MW and 5,584.40MW.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the development, the company\u2019s General Manager, Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah stated that, \u201cThis is an uncommon record in the Nigerian power sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis consistency and regular incremental improvement in Grid Performance on TCN\u2019s part is an indication of the professionalism and best practices that were brought in by the new Management in TCN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo better serve the 11 DisCos, TCN has entered into a Service Level Agreement (SLA) with the DisCos. To ensure proper synergy and effective service delivery via identification and execution of projects to further improve the grid and deliver quality electricity to consumers across the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe management of TCN reiterates its commitment towards further improving the national electricity grid as it continues to diligently implement its grid expansion programme with projects which are at various stages of implementation, from the reconductoring of the Ikeja West \u2013 Sakete transmission line, reinforcing the Ugwuaji to Apir Transmission line, among other numerous projects spread across the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian power sector yesterday received another boost as the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, disclosed the attainment of new peak transmission. The company in a statement made available to Vanguard stated that it successfully transmitted an enhanced peak generation of 5,801.60Megawatts, MW, at 9:30 pm on March 1st, 2021. \u201cThe latest peak generation was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":322048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[9481,6668],"class_list":["post-322047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-power","tag-tcn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/322048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}