The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved multiple contracts to increase power supply around the country.
Power Minister Aliyu Abubakar briefed press during the council’s valedictory meeting on Wednesday.
According to the minister, the council approved the award of a contract for the engineering, procurement, construction, and financing of 330 kilovolts (KV) and 132 KV transmission lines, as well as 33 KV, 11 KV, and a 400 Protective Earth (PE) distribution line project, as part of phase one of the Presidential Power Initiative (PPI).
He stated that the contract was given to “two contractors in the sum of $581,629,355.93, inclusive of 7.5 percent, at the prevailing exchange rate, with a completion period of 36 months as indicated.
“The recipient companies for lot one, from DL from Benin and Enugu DisCos, Messrs SLD electric. Then, lot DM 3 Abuja, Jos, Kano, Kaduna DisCos, Messrs China civil engineering construction cooperation, totaling a distance of around 13,000 kilometers for the two ‘lots’, and it has been graciously approved by council.
“Council approved the award of contract for the construction of 750 kilowatts solar PV power plant at the headquarters of where the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) is also situated in favor of Proserv Energy Services Limited in the sum of ₦1.6 billion inclusive of 7.5 percent VAT with a completion period of six months.
“Council also approved routine maintenance for the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN). The council approved a contract for the upgrading of the substation in Potiskum town in Yobe state with 132 power transformers.
“It is an existing substation, which has been there for a very long time with only one transformer and it serves a lot of areas around Potiskum.”
Abubakar stated that the town is the largest in the state, having a considerable population, and that it serves as a commercial and transportation hub.
Potiskum, according to the lawmaker, will become a hub for electricity transmission and distribution as a result of the renovation.
“The other component of it is the line bringing additional line from Damaturu. Before now, the line was coming from Gombe, which is over 200 kilometers. It is a 132 single-line coming into Potiskum to power the substation,” he said.
“So, having a 330 substation in Damaturu makes it easier and more prudent to take electricity from Damaturu to Potiskum over a distance of 120 kilometers.
“Because the longer you take the electricity on a 132 line, you get low quality of electricity.
“So, with the 132 from Gombe single line and now this proposed one coming from Damaturu to Potiskum, you will have a double circuit, and with an additional transformer of 132 cables, that is one by 60 MB.
“The second one on that memo was the construction of a two by 60 MBA and 132 line transmission substation at Sapade in Ogun state and in favour of Messrs VNK International Technologists at the total cost of a foreign component $10.2 million and a local component of ₦3.3 billion.
“The third one was the supply and installation of 33 KV substation equipment at Daura Emirate, Katsina state, in favour of Eases Power Deal Construction Limited in the sum of ₦4 billion.”
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