TCN Unveils Load and Outage Analytics Platform to Improve Grid Reliability

The Transmission Company of Nigeria has developed a digital platform to replace fragmented spreadsheets and slow manual reporting across its transmission network.

TCN’s operations department presented and demonstrated the Load and Outage Analytics platform, which the company said offers greater visibility of the network even though the full system is not yet available. The platform was built internally, less than a year after TCN created its Transmission Service Operator department.

General Manager of Operations Godwin Aguiyi said reliability reporting currently relies on data scattered across regional spreadsheets. Manual processes can take days, while inconsistent calculations and the lack of an audit trail complicate national assessments and delay management decisions.

The streamlit-based application contains 13 modules. It offers region, station, transformer and feeder views for load analysis, automatically classifies outages and generates reliability KPI reports. It can also produce board-ready reports in minutes. TCN Managing Director Sule Abdulaziz, represented at the presentation by Aminu Tahir, said better load management and supply-demand matching could reduce outages, improve efficiency and lower the cost of prolonged interruptions.