By CLARA NWACHUKWU
THE Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited, NDPHC, has announced the completion of the 60MVA 132/33 KV Transmission transformer in Agbara industrial area of Ogun state.

NDPHC, owners of the National Integrated Power Project, NIPP, said the project was completed on January 26, which has improved power supply to its numerous customers in the area.

The company said it has also “completed associated 33kv equipment with three outgoing 33kv feeders and a bus coupler, transformer, two outdoor secondary and outgoing feeders,” as part of its mandate to strengthen power transmission and distribution networks in the country.

Transmission project

The Managing Director/Chief Executive, NDPHC Mr. James Olotu, who made this confirmation recently during a working visit to the transmission station, said the project was delivered within schedule, adding that the development signaled improved power supply to Lagos and Ogun states.

According to him, the NIPP transmission and distribution projects within Lagos will continue to be delivered on monthly basis, a practice which started in December last year with the completion of a 60MVA transformer and its accessories in Oworoshoki as well as the two 15MVA transformers at Fowler and Alagbon substation respectively in Ikoyi, Lagos.

“We have said that we will light up Lagos and this we started last year with the commissioning of a 60MVA transformer at Oworonshoki. Today, we are here in Agbara doing the same thing, and from now on we shall be completing projects on a continuous basis in Lagos and indeed other parts of the country,” Olotu said.

He added that the NIPP

will deliver more projects this year and boost quality of power supply to Nigerians in line with the transformation and power sector reform agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan administration’s agenda.

The Agbara 132/33kv substation originally had a transformer with an installed capacity of two 45MVA or 90MVA. But with the execution of the sub-station extension works under the NIPP grid expansion projects, the station capacity has now been increased to 150MVA by the addition of a new 60MVA transformer. This addition represents an increase of 67 per cent over the initial substation transformer capacity.

Similarly, a 60 MVA transformer under NIPP grid expansion project was commissioned on December 8, 2011 at Oworonshoki Transmission sub-station in Lagos, just as plans have reached an advanced stage to deliver another 60MVAtransformer and associated equipment at the same location, with additional two 60MVA at the Ojo Sub-station also in Lagos before the end of this month.