Nigerians are set to enjoy more hours of electricity per day as the national grid transmission has gone up by another 111 megawatts in two days.
The management of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) on Thursday announced that the transmission had recorded another peak of 4656mw – a few days after hit a record 4545mw.
According to Seun Olagunju, general manager, public affairs of TCN, the new peak was attained at 10pm on Wednesday.
On Monday, the TCN management had announced the attainment of 4545MW peak transmission in the national grid.
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The previous record peak power transmission was 4517MW attained on December 23, 2012.
“Power generation and transmission have been above 4000MW following improvements in gas supply to the generating stations as well as equipment/infra-structure upgrade and enhanced human capacity of system operators,” Olagunju explained.
“TCN assures that it would continue to work at enhancing the capacity to transmit more quality power to the distribution companies.”
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