TCN: Nigeria’s grid can wheel 8,700MW, highest power delivered still 5,801MW

From Isaac Anumihe , Abuja
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Engineer Sule Ahmed Abdulaziz, has said Nigeria’s transmission network currently has the capacity to wheel 8,700 megawatts of electricity, far above the highest power ever generated and delivered to the national grid.
Speaking at a four-day parliamentary and stakeholders’ engagement summit on power sector reforms in Nigeria, Abdulaziz said the transmission network has consistently evacuated all available electricity generated, indicating that the grid is capable of handling higher power supply if generation increases.
According to him, the highest power ever ...