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TCN Restores Power In Lagos Areas After Plants’ Shutdown
- Abdulaziz said that TCN had energized the second 330KV Akangba-Ikeja West line…
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) says it has restored power supply to areas affected by the early morning explosion, which brought down its five 33KV Towers through the activities of vandals in the Isheri area of Lagos.
The TCN Managing Director, Sule Abdulaziz, made this known during his visit to the site of the incident on Friday evening in Lagos.
Abdulaziz said that TCN had energized the second 330KV Akangba-Ikeja West line, which before the fire incident, served as a redundant line in that axis, in keeping with TCN’s N-1 reliability criteria.
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“The second 330KV line which tripled during the incident was patrolled by TCN engineers and certified okay before it was energised.
“The line II was energised at about 2.38 p.m on Friday and now wheels 121MW to the Akangba Transmission Substation.
“This means that areas under Ikeja Disco, whose supplies were affected by the pipeline fire incident, will now have a normal supply of electricity,” he said.
In view of the importance of transmission line redundancy, Abdulaziz said that TCN had already directed two contractors to mobilise to the site and commence the reconstruction of the towers and 330KV line on Monday.
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