The Federal Government on Saturday announced that the mega transformers it ordered under the Presidential Power Initiative had successfully undergone a factory acceptance test at Siemens’ transformers factory in Trento, Italy.

It also announced that the “first batch of the transformers is expected to arrive Nigeria in September 2022.”

The spokesperson to the Minister of Power, Isa Sanusi, in a statement issued in Abuja, said the Managing Director, Federal Government of Nigeria Power Company, Kenny Anuwe, led Nigeria’s delegation to the factory in Italy.

He said the delegation, which had engineers from Transmission Company of Nigeria, witnessed the factory acceptance test conducted on July 28, 2022, in Italy.

“The factory acceptance test paves the way for Siemens Energy to start delivering the transformers to Nigeria,” he said.

He stressed that this was coming after the Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu, led a delegation to Germany in April where he paid visits to Siemens Energy factories in Berlin and Frankfurt.

He said the minister also held meetings with the senior leadership of Siemens Energy on the need to fast-track the delivery of the early orders that would kickstart the transformation of Nigeria’s electricity.

The minister was quoted saying, “The successful factory acceptance test shows Nigeria’s engagement with Siemens Energy is on track. It also shows the Federal Government’s commitment to addressing Nigeria’s electricity challenges.”

In December 2021, the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, and Aliyu secured the approval of the Federal Executive Council of €63m for the procurement of equipment to boost power supply under the Presidential Power Initiative.

The first phase of the PPI is to provide 10 mobile power sub-stations and 10 mega transformers to be deployed across the country to boost and stabilise the electricity supply.

In 2018, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), initiated the Presidential Power Initiative to enable Siemens Energy to upgrade Nigeria’s electricity systems.

The first phase of the PPI seeks to modernise, rehabilitate and expand the national grid.

It is to achieve this by investing in the electricity value chain, including generation, transmission, and distribution systems.

https://punchng.com/e63m-mega-transformers-to-arrive-nigeria-september-fg/

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See beating around the bush for over 7 years.

Peter Obi will ensure steady power supply to Nigeria in the shortest possible time, power is a prerequisite for industrialisation.

Vote for Peter Obi.

Audio transformer.

What use is transformer when we don't have functional power generating plants. It's like buying plates and spoon without having food in your house

Good one

This government keep embarrassing itself. Believe this trash at your own peril. Werey dey disguise.

Abeg ensure you have registered for yout PVCs already and let's kick these old ancestors out come 2023. Let's vote massively for peter Obi, a man with vision. No doubt, Obi is the best man for the job.

We Edo indigenes are highly Obidient to the mission!

Peter Obi from Consumption to production nonsense


8 years as governor of Anambra, he only wasted their money by investing in hero beer, his family business.


I challenge any OBItuarist to tell me one thing Peter Lienus Obi led Anambra to produce in commercial quantity.


Somebody whose family made billions from importation is talking about Production.

Only 5% of the money will be used to buy the transformers.

Hmmm.... PPI..... public money spending for private investments. The cost of the project is a secret.... and so is the amount the FG will be spending and the amount the investors will be spending.

national grid system is obsolete.. let all states or regions av their own grids simple.

Siemens Mega Electric Transformers (the size of a Truck) with the capacity of 25GW which is 25000 Megawatts first batches has arrived Nigeria.

As against our current capacity of 4500MW, a 25000MW is going to be massive.

President Buhari keeping his word on infrastructures back to back. This SIEMENS Deal is a game changer he personally took leadership of by going to Germany to sign the deal with Germany. Instead of using middlemen like his predecessors do out of laziness and corruption, he persuaded then German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, to bring SIEMENS on board and make firm commitment of gurantee to deliver on this project.
With the rate these infrastructures and Ajaokuta are making these milestones, Nigeria will soon be one of the leading nations by earning from steel and electricity export.
God bless President Buhari.
God bless Nigeria for ever!

This is great. Road, rail and power infrastructure wise, Buhari is the best president since 1999.

GoooodHardDick:


This government keep embarrassing itself. Believe this trash at your own peril. Werey dey disguise.

Abeg ensure you have registered for yout PVCs already and let's kick these old ancestors out come 2023. Let's vote massively for peter Obi, a man with vision. No doubt, Obi is the best man for the job.

We Edo indigenes are highly Obidient to the mission!

What do you have to say now that the first batch of the transformers have arrived Nigeria.