……..to become Nigeria’s transmission hub
The Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited (NDPHC) has said that the newly built Lafia Transmission Substation in Nasarawa state will boost electricity supply to at least one million households and businesses and improve the wellbeing of every resident of the state.
Managing director of the company, Engr. Chiedu Ugbo made this known during the weekend at the new substation in Lafia, the Nasarawa state capital. He stated that the new substation would become Nigeria’s transmission hub with back feed to Abuja.
The 2x150mva and 2x60mva 330/132/33kv transmission substation recently commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari was built by the NDPHC.
Engr. Ugbo noted that before the new substation was built, Lafia was served by a single 70km distribution line from Akwanga. He explained that with a lot of connections on the way, the power that eventually got to Lafia was very dim, “So there was no useful electricity in Lafia and its environs.”
In his words, Ugbo said, “We expect the project to improve the well-being of every resident of Lafia and the entire Nasarawa State and improve economic activities, creation of jobs.
“Also because of the big nature of the project, we expect it to become the transmission hub in the country. The Transmission Company Nigeria (TCN) is already working on the connection. A 330KV connection from here to Abuja, to back feed Abuja.”
According to him, the managing director added that “NDPHC decided to build this Lafia Substation essentially to step down electricity from the high voltage transmission line to a lower voltage level where the distribution company (Abuja Disco) can now draw electricity and serve close to one million households and businesses in the state.
“It will thus help boost economic activities in the state, with positive knock-on effects on employment and socio-economic upliftment of the residents of the State,” he said.
Also, the NDPHC’s executive director of Networks, Engr. Ifeoluwa Oyedele said that although the company’s primary mandate was power generation, it has executed intervention projects in transmission and distribution to ensure improved power supply to Nigerians.
Engr. Oyedele said, “In the last 15 years NDPHC has built 10 power stations and that is our main focus however we do realize that when you generate power it has to get ultimately to the consumers and that is why we have been intervening in constructing transmission substations, injection substations and so on.
“This is because no organization can do what we do, with the speed that we do it, with the quality that we do and at the cost that we do it. We are arguably the largest power company in Africa.”
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