TCN restores electricity supply on Odukpani-Ikot Ekpene line
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The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, announced, it has restored electricity supply to the transmission tower attached by vandals in Cross River State a couple of weeks ago.
The TCN said it has energized the Odukpani – Ikot Ekpene 330kV Double Circuit Transmission lines after completing the re-erection of the vandalized tower 104 and lines repair.
The TCN’s General Manager Public Affairs, Ndid Mbah said in a statement in Abuja that with the completion of work the company has commenced the evacuation of over 400 Megawatts stranded power generation from Odukpani Power plant to Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC) for onward delivery to Cross River State and its environs.
Mbah said TCN MD/CEO, Engr. Sule Abdulaziz made this known during a meeting with some power stakeholders in his office.
She quoted Eng. Abdulaziz as saying that, the TCN engineering team and the contractor that handled the reconstruction project, worked tenaciously to re-erect the vandalized tower, they fortified other towers along the same line route whose members were also vandalized, and carried out the restringing of the 330kV double circuit transmission lines.
“With the completion of the repairs, the Odukpani power plant has been reconnected to the grid”, he stated.
It would be recalled that the vandalism and consequent collapse of tower 104 on April 8, 2022, was responsible for the last system collapse causing over 400MW from the Odukpani Power plant to be stranded from the grid.
