Collapse, a setback to TCN’s grid expansion, major reduction of bulk power wheeled to TCN’s 330/132/33kV Akangba Transmission Substation
It may be a dark yuletide for residents of Lagos as the Transmission Company of Nigeria has said that it will take a while to re-erect the five transmission towers and restring the 33kV line damaged earlier today.
Platforms Africa had reported the collapse of the 33Kv Powerline.
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In a statement sent to Platforms Africa by Ndidi Mbah, General Manager in charge of Public Affairs, the company said as a result of the incident, there is a major reduction of bulk power wheeled to TCN’s 330/132/33kV Akangba Transmission Substation.
It said, “Incidents such as this is a major setback to TCN’s concerted efforts in implementing its grid expansion and stability programme under its well-articulated Electricity Grid Maintenance, Expansion and Rehabilitation Programme.
This is because the re-erection of five towers and restringing of the 330kV transmission line is a major project that costs a lot of money and will take a while to complete.”
However, it said due to the fact that the substation takes supply from two different 330kV transmission lines, with the second being the redundant line, it will rearrange bulk electricity transmitted on that line route to the second 330kV previously carrying 59MW.
“Presently, TCN is successfully back-feeding the substations affected by the towers collapse, while the engineers are patrolling the second 330kV transmission line which tripped as a result of the incident to ensure it has no fault before it is energized.
“Once it is energized, supply will be restored to all the substations affected by the incident from the second 330kV transmission line, as the load carried by the burnt 330kV line will now be transferred to the second line,” she added.
