The Management of Kaduna Electric has taken strong exception to the
recent newspaper report which suggested that the Company is rejecting
electricity allocated to it from the National Control Centre.
In a press statement issued by the Head, Corporate Communication of
the Company, AbdulAzzez abdullahi yesterday, Kaduna electric
maintained that contrary to the newspaper report, it has a “maximum
demand of about 500MW as verified during the stress test conducted by
the company in November, 2015”.
Abdullahi attributed the discrepancy between the load allocation from
the National Control Centre and the load taken by the company to
system “instability and capacity limitation of Transmission Company of
Nigeria’s infrastructures”.
According to him, TCN substations in Birnin Kebbi, Talatan Mafara,
Gusau and Kaduna as well as some transmission lines within the
Company’s franchise area are either aged or grossly over loaded to
guarantee full load. “It is practically impossible for our Company to
strictly adhere to load allocation of the NCC due to auto under
frequency relay operations of the TCN on the Kaduna town 2 132KV
line”, he contended.
He argued that the situation was further compounded by the frequency
and voltage control limitation operations the company is subjected to
by the intermittent instruction of the TCN.
He appealed to the authority concern to, as a matter urgency, upgrade
the 330/132KV, 90MVA transformer T1 in Birnin Kebbi transmission works
Centre to 150MVA to enable the Company improve power supply to Sokoto
and parts of zamfara States.
He also called for the upgrading of the transformers in Gusau and Kaduna
and rehabilitation of the Funtua-Gusau 132Kv line accordingly.
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