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NEW: Enugu begins construction of 3 new 33KV feeders to end prolonged power outages in 4 LGAs

The Enugu State Government has commenced the construction of three new 33KV electricity feeders designed to end prolonged power outages and provide improved, stable and reliable electricity supply to communities in four Local Government Areas of the state.

The project, which is being developed from the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) Station, Ugwuaji, will improve electricity supply to Nkanu East, Nkanu West, Awgu, and Aninri Local Government Areas.

The flag-off of the project was preceded by a stakeholders meeting on electricity held at the International Conference Centre, Enugu, during the weekend.

The intervention is targeted at addressing the longstanding challenges associated with the Amechi 33KV feeder, which currently serves as the major source of electricity supply to Nkanu East and Nkanu West, as well as Enugu South, Awgu and Aninri Local Government Areas in Enugu State.

The feeder, which stretches for more than 600 kilometres into three Local Government Areas of Ebonyi State, is reportedly the longest 33KV feeder in the South-East, making it difficult to detect and rectify faults and resulting in prolonged electricity outages across the communities it serves.

Speaking at the event, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Enugu State Electrification Agency (ESEA), Engr. Christopher Ezeoha, said the state government had decided to fundamentally restructure the network rather than simply restore the existing feeder.

Ezeoha explained that the government was constructing two new 33KV feeders from the TCN Station at Ugwuaji and extending an existing short 33KV feeder from the same station, bringing the number of new and extended feeders to three.

He said the new feeders would be dedicated to improving electricity supply to Nkanu East and Nkanu West, while the existing Amechi feeder would be reconfigured to serve Awgu and Aninri.

Ezeoha said the government would further construct four new injection substations in Nkanu East and Nkanu West to transform electricity from 33KV to 11KV, thereby strengthening the distribution network and improving the reliability of power supply in the areas.

“Some communities, including Nkerifi, Nara and Mburubu, have not had electricity for more than 20 years,” he said, noting that the state government had directed the agency to restore electricity to such communities.

He, however, said restoring the existing feeder alone would not provide a lasting solution because of its excessive length and the number of communities and Local Government Areas dependent on it.

Ezeoha said the new arrangement would substantially reduce the length of individual feeders, making fault detection and repairs faster and improving the quality and duration of electricity supplied to the affected communities.

“By the time we finish doing this work, we hope to give them more than 20 hours average daily power supply. That is what the government says we should do,” he said.

He said the electricity intervention was part of a larger plan by the administration of Governor Peter Mbah to establish a modern and commercially viable electricity market in the state.

Ezeoha disclosed that the power improvement investments would initially be managed by a special-purpose vehicle, Enugu Electrification Agency Ltd., which would distribute and market electricity in Nkanu East and Nkanu West, with the long-term objective of taking over electricity distribution services across Enugu State.

He said the agency had commenced pre-feasibility studies and the preparation of a 10-year business plan as part of the process of securing the necessary regulatory approvals and licences for bulk electricity trading and participation in the state electricity market.

The ESEA boss further disclosed that the state government was preparing its electricity distribution infrastructure to evacuate power from a proposed 630-megawatt generation facility being developed in the state.

He said the long-term objective of the administration was to provide reliable electricity supply 24 hours a day, seven days a week, stressing that achieving the target would require not only increased generation but also a robust distribution network capable of evacuating and delivering available power efficiently.

Ezeoha said the government also planned to deploy smart pre-paid meters and automation technology to improve accountability, enhance revenue collection and enable the quick detection and resolution of faults.

He explained that a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system would allow the agency to identify the location of faults almost immediately, enabling technical personnel to respond directly to affected points instead of searching along hundreds of kilometres of transmission lines.

He appealed to communities to protect electricity infrastructure against vandalism, stressing that the sustainability of the government’s investment depended on collective ownership and protection of the facilities.

He said the intervention would not be limited to Nkanu East and Nkanu West, as similar electricity infrastructure investments would be extended to other parts of the state, including Nsukka and Uzo-Uwani, as part of the administration’s broader plan to transform electricity supply across Enugu.

The State Commissioner for Energy, Mr Enyinna Ogbonna, said electricity was one of the major priorities of the administration of Governor Mbah, describing reliable power supply as critical to driving industrialisation, job creation and economic growth.

Ogbonna said the government’s electricity investments were integral to its broader economic development agenda, including the target of growing Enugu’s Gross Domestic Product from about $4.4 billion to $30 billion.

Also speaking, the General Manager of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Enugu Region, Dr Tom Inugonum, commended the state government for its efforts to improve electricity supply.

Inugonum said the TCN Enugu Region controlled transmission infrastructure covering between six and eight states, adding that improved cooperation with the Enugu State Government would help address the state’s power challenges.

He said Enugu received electricity from three major sources and had several transmission lines serving different parts of the state, but noted that some transmission and substation projects in the region remained incomplete, limiting the capacity of the power system.

He also expressed concern over the vandalism of transmission infrastructure, stressing the need for communities to protect substations, transmission lines and other critical facilities.

In his remarks, the President-General of Isi-Amagunze, Mr Okey Nwatu, called for greater community involvement in protecting electricity infrastructure.

Nwatu said transformers, cables, switches and other electrical facilities were critical infrastructure that communities must protect if they wanted to enjoy sustained electricity supply.

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Peter Mbah is working and showing positive results without much noise.
My governor is providing effective governance to the whole state.

Other state should wake up, electricity acts allows state and individual to generate and distribute electricity at their own discretion, Stop waiting for federal government.

An independent power source like that of Abia is what Enugu and other south east state needs...long time we still depend on FG for our supply of electricity....

Time to work for His village people.... taking electricity to his village. Right step in the right direction

Kudos to our amiable governor Peter Mbah! He's doing excellent job in the state! More of this please.

Very good development but the government have to do more about the water crisis over there.

An effective and sustainable modern water distributing systems should be a priority.

Seun and the mods of this platform are gradually driving it to it grave with this annoying ad springing up and down, we love naira land but it’s about time we bid it farewell.

Exactly what I wanted to do to my people of enugu state immediately I get back to Nigeria from united kingdom. But I will gladly support the enugu state government with 2 million dollars. Is a welcome development

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NEW: Enugu begins construction of 3 new 33KV feeders to end prolonged power outages in 4 LGAs


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Governor Peter Mbah is commended for doing the needful. That is what is expected of government and not building mosques and churches and poor standard water boreholes all aimed at winning Presidential elections like Peter Obi has been doing for years now! Peter Mbah by his stellar performance as Enugu State Governor is positioning himself for an Igbo Presidency in the foreseeable future.

Moroccoguy:
Other state should wake up, electricity acts allows state and individual to generate and distribute electricity at their own discretion, Stop waiting for federal government.

Most State Governors are completely useless.
Despite the new electricity acts , majority of them are not doing anything about it.
People need to start calling out those useless Governors.

temielects:
Seun and the mods of this platform are gradually driving it to it grave with this annoying ad springing up and down, we love naira land but it’s about time we bid it farewell.

Is the content a false narrative?🧐🧐. Just say you dislike Peter Mbah or is it the communities that are soon to benefit from the public infrastructure under construction that you dislike?🧐🧐🧐.

Sonofgod1990:
Exactly what I wanted to do to my people of enugu state immediately I get back to Nigeria from united kingdom. But I will gladly support the enugu state government with 2 million dollars. Is a welcome development

Meanwhile you are endlessly pouring Johnie Walker Scotch Whisky into a glass cup!!!😅. When will two million dollars complete nah!!!😅😅😅💁💁🏃‍♂️👀😀

What I like about this development is more about the process than the project.

FIRST, they held a stakeholders meeting, obviously to discuss, deliberate and rub minds together, obviously with both leaders and the med in attendance.

That is how to.run a developmental based democracy. Not shunning the people and th n throwing money at contractors to do as they please.

When all stakeholders are involved then society as a whole is committed to the success of the project right down to it's implementation. Even taxation becomes easier.

While kano state government is celebrating a mass weeding of more than 1000 couples that engulfed over 1.5 billion naira.
Despite the fact that we have over 2 million out of school children roaming on our street.
This is psychological differences 😭😭

Tabithatim:
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Gov Mbah, pinnacle of the East of niger, you too much, working without noise

Tabithatim:
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what's wrong with nairaland with giant ads

I think I will have to use brave browser to block this nonsense ads

It's a welcome development but the water project is also very important. I don't really understand why it has stalled. The government can also subsidize solar for citizens especially rural areas or even find a way to support solar companies to establish here. Maintaining transformers and building long lines to connect areas far off from the grid with power supply that is still mostly epileptic sometimes doesn't yield better returns.

Tabithatim:
NEW: Enugu begins construction of 3 new 33KV feeders to end prolonged power outages in 4 LGAs


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Sheriff obrevwore the governor of Delta state has 5times what this governor has in allocation and yet Sheriff can't provide steady power supply for the state.

Can someone explain how the privatisation process in the power Ministry really works?? It is starting to confuse. Looks like the privatisation of NEPA is by far the biggest 419 project in Nigeria. What are the duties of all these companies that bought into Nepa?? They are not doing anything apart from hiking electricity bills and collecting revenues..

I mean the federal and state governments make all these serious investments like building power stations and lines, meanwhile someone like Emeka Offor and his phoney company will be waiting to collect all the incomes that come with electricity bills payments...
Is that not fraudulent? Does that not mean that privatisation failed?

Begin O not completed

Nigeria my country.

BBcos he is Igbo nobody is asking if he is building it with his personal money.

Obidient are not wailing that it is his job like they wail if it was Sanwolu or Dapo Abiodun. Only those should build with their personal money as it is their job but it is not Mbah or Alex Oti's job.

overdrive:
Peter Mbah is working and showing positive results without much noise.
My governor is providing effective governance to the whole state.

Moroccoguy:
Other state should wake up, electricity acts allows state and individual to generate and distribute electricity at their own discretion, Stop waiting for federal government.

So federal government will only be after taxing people abi?
Ndi Ara, why won't they also do tax act so people will also be collecting money with discretion?
After promising 24 hours electricity this is heat he came up with and you are here applauding them?
Continue

Don't mind that guy, na peter obi wey de loot 25 million from Anambra state we suppose de applaud.

Gentlelife50:
So federal government will only be after taking people abi?
Ndi Ara, why won't they also do tax act so people will also be collecting money with discretion?
After promising 24 hours electricity this is heat he came up with and you are here applauding them?
Continue

3? That's big. Bbbbbbbbbbb

Ballmer:
Don't mind that guy, na peter obi wey de loot 25 million from Anambra state we suppose de applaud.

You're really wise, go and meet Peter obi for 24 hours electricity naaa.
How u take dey cross road sef?

It's not about the party, it's about the person.

In 2027, don't vote for party, vote for individual

temielects:
Seun and the mods of this platform are gradually driving it to it grave with this annoying ad springing up and down, we love naira land but it’s about time we bid it farewell.

3 cups of rice and 2 packets of indomie.

Sonofgod1990:
Exactly what I wanted to do to my people of enugu state immediately I get back to Nigeria from united kingdom. But I will gladly support the enugu state government with 2 million dollars. Is a welcome development

Money na water

Bia, b kuaful

Sleekfingers:
Most State Governors are completely useless.
Despite the new electricity acts , majority of them are not doing anything about it.
People need to start calling out those useless Governors.

No mind those treasury bandits

Hmmm ... 600 km feeder ... I'm sure at inauguration they were boasting of the longest feeder in the region .. not foreseeing the problem of locating failures along the line . This new approach makes sense .... but fails to mention the lengths of the new feeders. Why not? I don't know why local electricity production is not on the table .... electricity is too centralized to cover such vast areas with scattered population densities.. I hope in the plan there are local emergency services to attend to failures quickly. Hmmm .... aiming to produce 20 hours of electricity in 2026.
It's good if he spends his entire time in office addressing this one basic infrastructure failure ... and at the end provide reliable electricity State wide. The next Governor can spend his term providing potable water. On this.... why not overhead tanks to supply communities? ...

Nigeria is so big a country, I believe every State should generate its own electricity.

Moroccoguy:
Other state should wake up, electricity acts allows state and individual to generate and distribute electricity at their own discretion, Stop waiting for federal government.

The project is to improve transmission. It won;t improve overall generation

Also, most states including enugu and most individuals are not going to generate and distribute electricity so long as the government is not allowing a cost reflective tarrif to be charged. Even the government claim that they want to remove subsidy is punctuated by the comment that prices would not rise, meaning they are lying about removing subsides on eelctricity.

No one ever invested in a business sector where government is setting prices. BY contrast many states invested in GSM because they knew the price of the gsm services were not set by gofment.