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FG adds 780MVA to Lagos power capacity with eight transformers

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  • Nigeria's Federal Government has inaugurated eight power transformer projects across Lagos State, significantly boosting the region's electricity transmission capacity.
  • The projects add 780MVA to the transmission network, including new transformers at Apapa, Ijora, Alausa, and Lekki substations, enhancing power delivery to homes and businesses.
  • The Minister of Power stated these investments aim to remove electricity constraints, unlock economic growth, and support the expansion of key economic corridors like Lekki.

The Federal Government of Nigeria has inaugurated eight power transformer projects across Lagos State, injecting an additional 780MVA into the transmission network and substantially increasing the capacity to deliver electricity. These projects, completed on Monday and Tuesday, are expected to benefit homes, businesses, and industries throughout the state.

They represent targeted investments in capacity, capacity for businesses to grow, capacity for industries to produce, and capacity for communities to prosper.

— Joseph TegbeDescribing the broader economic and social impact of the new power infrastructure.

The new installations include two 60MVA transformers at the Apapa Transmission Substation, two 100MVA transformers at Ijora, one 100MVA transformer at Alausa, and a significant 300MVA transformer along with two 60MVA transformers at the Lekki Transmission Substation. These additions collectively provide 540MVA at the 132kV level, capable of wheeling 432MW, and 300MVA at the 330kV level, transmitting an additional 240MW across the Lagos network.

Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, who led the inaugurations, emphasized that these projects represent more than just new equipment. He described them as "targeted investments in capacity, capacity for businesses to grow, capacity for industries to produce, and capacity for communities to prosper." Tegbe highlighted the Lekki substation's upgrade, which effectively doubled its 330/132/33kV capacity from 300MVA to 600MVA (approximately 480MW) at the 330/132kV level, and from 120MVA to 240MVA (approximately 192MW) at the 132/33kV level.

Today, we are commissioning capacity, capacity for businesses to grow; capacity for industries to produce; capacity for communities to prosper; and capacity for one of the fastest-growing economic corridors in our country to continue to expand without electricity infrastructure becoming a brake on its progress.

— Joseph TegbeHighlighting the significance of the Lekki substation upgrade for a key economic zone.

Tegbe noted that Lekki is a rapidly expanding economic corridor, and ensuring its electricity infrastructure keeps pace with investment and economic expansion is crucial. The project also delivered nine new 33kV feeders to improve bulk power delivery to the Eko Electricity Distribution Company network. He concluded by stating that Lekki exemplifies the future Nigeria envisions: more industrial, commercially active, and globally connected, without electricity infrastructure hindering progress.

Lekki represents the Nigeria we are building towards, a more industrial, more commercially active, more connected to global markets and increas

— Joseph TegbeIllustrating the vision for Nigeria's future economic development, with Lekki as a model.
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