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The Minister of power, Adebayo Adelabu, has disclosed that plans are ongoing for additional 150 megawatts of electricity to the National grid before January 2025.

Adelabu who disclosed this at the Presidential Villa on Wednesday, said the move will lead to relative stability of the National grid.


The Minister who was part of the bilateral meeting between President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his German counterpart, Frank Walter Steinmeier, said the part way to steady power supply is collaboration, partnership and revamping of the entire grid.

He said Nigeria has bilateral relationship with the Republic of Germany in the area of energy and electricity, adding: “What is key now is collaboration and partnership, and the flagship of this bilateral relationship has to do with what we call the Siemens project, which is our presidential power Initiative, where Siemens is actually implementing the Brownfield and Greenfield transmission substations of the Presidential Power initiative.⁣”

According to the Minister, since December 2023 when the agreement was signed “We have completed the pilot phase of this project, up to 80 percent. This involves the importation, the installation and commissioning of 10 power transformers and 10 powermobile substations.

“There have been imported and installed. We have just about two left to be commissioned before the end of the year. ⁣The positive impact of this is that it has added nothing less than 750 megawatts to our transmission grid capacity, which is why the relative stability that we are seeing in the grid today is the direct positive impact of the pilot stage completion. ⁣

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“So, we believe that before end of the year, additional 150 megawatts capacity is going to be added upon completion of the entire pilot phase.⁣ We are officially entering into the phase one stage of this project, which involves rehabilitation of 14 brownfield existing substations and the establishment of 23 new Greenfield stations across the length and breadth of this country. ⁣
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“What we are expecting now is a no-objection approval from the Bureau of Public Procurement, after which I am going to present it at FEC. ⁣Once presented at FEC, and we will finalise the financing arrangement, we are quite confident from the satisfaction that we got from the completion of the pilot stage.

“When we are done with the Phase One project in the transmission, the entire grid will not remain the same, and that’s why we are telling Nigerians that this is a very old grid. It’s quite fragile and it’s dilapidating. ⁣We need to revamp the entire grid for us to be sure of stability going forward.”

Speaking on renewable energy, he said, “We have an energy transition plan to achieve net zero emission by year 2060. To achieve this, we must collaborate. We must partner. We must cooperate with a country like Germany, who have the technology, we have the sun. Over 30 states in Nigeria have minimum of 10 hours of sunshine everyday. ⁣

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“They have technology. We have the wind. We have the desert wind up north, and we have the coastal wind down south. And with the new highway from Lagos to Calabar, it’s opening up our coastal offshore wind across the nine coastal states of Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Edo, Delta Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom and Cross River. We won’t have any choice.”

He also said the solution to the electricity issue is the off-grid system where the “36 states and FCT will have their own generating plants within the state, and this network will be embedded within the states, and they will be shielded from any problem on the national grid. When there is a problem on the national grid, they will all have backup.”

Source: https://dailytrust.com/FG-to-add-150-megawatts-of-electricity-before-January-Minister

At what cost?

1MW of solar capacity cost approx $1m and we know renewables are generally more costlier than fossil fuel tech.

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Good

Good news.

But wait ooo, 2morow's January abi 2026? If it's in the next 2weeks, then I want to believe ALL modalities are set and tested already.

Much better said however Action speaks louder than words, hopefully this comes to fruition.

But Minister I hope you also have extra plans for the incoming dry/hot season between Jan - Mar?

Am afraid, may be government to do the opposite: espect more national grid collapse

adenigga:
Source: https://dailytrust.com/FG-to-add-150-megawatts-of-electricity-before-January-Minister

You dey mad useless minister.

Best is to acquire a solar generator and a solar panel
That is the best way one can get out of this national grid mess.

just look at this people

Until FG allows an entrepreneur to enter this territory and they have a stiff business competition in energy supply, power supply will remain epileptic.

Dangote opened a refinery and suddenly the PH refinery also quickly started to work..

Story of the gods- Olamide

Excellent move from the government.

Power is no more in the exclusive list. Each governor should generate power in their states and local government.

Failed system, failed leaders( leadership of liars) and unfortunately and more importantly a failed state filled political, tribal and religious bias from the leaders down to the masses.
Note: Most Yoruba people will commend this current regime in as much as they know that the system is failing in almost all ramifications.
Hausa's supported Buhari throughout his 8 years of Nedbuckanizer esque leadership.
An Igbo man when given the chance will do the same.

Just ltake a look at South Africa's power generation and then you'll realize our power system is filled with JOKERS

Just note that Nigeria needs 88000 MW DAILY to get 24 hour power. (the optimists say 33000 MW).

Teymanhenry:
Failed system, failed leaders( leadership of liars) and unfortunately and more importantly a failed state filled political, tribal and religious bias from the leaders down to the masses.
Note: Most Yoruba people will commend this current regime in as much as they know that the system is failing in almost all ramifications.
Hausa's supported Buhari throughout his 8 years of Nedbuckanizer esque leadership.
An Igbo man when given the chance will do the same.

Just ltake a look at South Africa's power generation and then you'll realize our power system is filled with JOKERS

South Africa generates part of its power from nuclear power...

Also, ESKOM is now struggling to meet demand. Blackouts have been a thing in Azania.

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dalass:
Until FG allows an entrepreneur to enter this territory and they have a stiff business competition in energy supply, power supply will remain epileptic.

Dangote opened a refinery and suddenly the PH refinery also quickly started to work..

Subsidy removal also made NNPC work on its refinery.

Thing is, when the subsidy finally went (still suspicous of this government, but in theory, subsidy has gone)...refining at home became more profitable. Thus, everyone is now hurrying up to refine at home. BUA allegedly will be online in the next 2 years....

adenigga:
Source: https://dailytrust.com/FG-to-add-150-megawatts-of-electricity-before-January-Minister

With calculator?

Adelabu should humbly resign or Tinubu should give him another portfolio that fits him

tinubu replace this one with tunji or wike and put him for minister for state in women min

promise upon promise, another story today.
And the national grid keep collapsing like epileptic patient.
All the band A B C didn't solve sht.

Power minister go rest abeg.

Everything is political talks. No action because they are useless clueless bunch that criminally got into government.

nairalanda1:
Subsidy removal also made NNPC work on its refinery.

Thing is, when the subsidy finally went (still suspicous of this government, but in theory, subsidy has gone)...refining at home became more profitable. Thus, everyone is now hurrying up to refine at home. BUA allegedly will be online in the next 2 years....

Yes oh and all the huge subsidy being paid to government sycophants will be stopped. The fuel price will reduce because of competition and the poor in this country will breathe again

Do we have the infrastructure to push that 150MW to end users because they usually say if Nigeria exceed transmission capacity of >6000MW the grid usually collapse.
Hopefully measures are now on place to push all our generation capacity to the final users

One of the numerous stories we hear in Nigeria..

Will that stop and prevent grid collapse every month.

What a shame

Useless adding. Where's light since yesterday?

I'm patriotic and always support but when necessary, I criticise the FG.

This is a fat lie, Sir.