By Olaleke ASHAFA
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) says the current poor power supply being experienced in Kano, Katsina and Jigawa states as a result of faulty transformers at Kumbotoso Transmission station in Kano, will soon be over.
The Managing Director of the company, Mr Usman Gur-Mohammed gave the assurance in Kano on Thursday while fielding questions from newsmen shortly after inaugurating a new 60MVA 132/33KV transformer at Dan’agundi transmission substation Kano.
He said the newly acquired transformer which had arrived the country would soon be transported to Kano to enable the TCN in-house engineers to install the equipment.
The Managing Director, who acknowledged the challenges being faced at the transmission station, assured that the problem would be addressed within the next two weeks.
“We really have challenges at Kumbotoso Transmission Station but we are making effort to rectify the problems as we have asked our engineers bring the two transformers to work,”he said.
He said as soon as the newly acquired transformer was installed, power supply would improved in the three affected states.
The Managing Director had also inaugurated 1×30/40MVA 132/33KV substation at Wudil transmission substation.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje commended the Federal Government for completion of the project which was started in 2009 but abandoned by the contractor.
He also thanked the Federal Government for improving power supply across the country from 5, 000 megawatts to 8,000 megawatts within the last three and ahalf years.
According to him, the inauguration of the transmission station would enhance power supply in seven local government areas of the state as well as improve the living standard of the people in the areas.
it would be recalled that in November 2014, a 150MVA transformer was lost due to a fire outbreak which reduced the installed capacity of the Kumbotso Transmission Station to 450MVA from 600MVA.
Again recently another 150MVA transformer developed fault at the transmission station leaving the entire KEDCO franchise with a 300MVA resulting to supply rationing in the three states of its operations.
