The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has completed another new 2x40MVA 132/33kV transmission substation project in Yauri, Kebbi State.
The exercise is coming 11 years after the project was awarded to a contractor in December 2007. The contractor was said to have persistently failed to execute it until May 2018 when TCN took over the project and commissioned her in-house engineers to complete it.
A statement issued by the general manager, Public Affairs, TCN, Mrs. Ndidi Mbah, said the Yauri Substation project is one of the many contracts that were taken over by TCN from contractors and completed by its in-house engineers.
Part of the statement reads, “The new Yauri 2x40MVA 330/33kV Transmission Substation was first awarded in December, 2007 but the contractor failed persistently to complete the contract for 11years. Consequently, TCN took over the project on the May 2018 and completed it.”
Meanwhile, TCN said it has completed and commissioned into service over 40 transformers in its substations nationwide, from February 2017 to date.
This is even as Mrs. Mbah, explained that when TCN took over the Yauri substation project, installations were only about 50 per cent complete, stressing that three months down the line, the project has successfully been completed and one transformer energized.
She explained that the second transformer would be energized as soon as the final pre-commissioning issues have been completely dealt with.
The statement added that the substation project would be officially commissioned by the Honourable Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola in no distance time.
According to TCN, the Yauri Transmission Substation project has increased the quantum of bulk electricity supply to Kano Electricity Distribution Company load feeders for onward delivery to electricity customers in Yauri, Zuru, Koko, Shanga and Wara in Kebbi State. Other areas that would also benefit include Ibeto, Nasko, and Salka in Niger State.
This new 80MVA capacity Substation is one out of the several transmission substation projects TCN, the current management had taken over from contractors who have shown lack of capacity to complete the projects and completed them. Others include Damaturu, Kwukwaba, Wudil, andMayo Belwa Substations among others. (Leadership NG)
