Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has disclosed that once its Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system, designed for monitoring and controlling field devices, which is currently 69% complete is completed, the company will have the capacity to conduct real-time monitoring of the power grid and prevent further vandalism of power lines across Nigeria.
Managing Director of TCN, Engr. Sule Abdulaziz, confirmed this during a special briefing tagged ‘Meet the Press’, organised by the Media Unit of the State House, Abuja, on Thursday, March 6, 2025.
“From our work program, in six months, we are going to finish SCADA. I mentioned that it is 69 per cent completed, and this project is funded by the World Bank.
The World Bank was funding NETAP. In that NETAP, we have $486 million. It is out of it that we are doing the SCADA. By the time we have that SCADA completed, we will be able to see in real time whatever is happening on the grid.
“We are going to finish it. It’s not up to a month since we visited the place they are putting in the Gwagwalada in our new substation. We paid a visit there with the people from the World Bank, and the project is going well. Most of the equipment is installed. So, by six months, we are going to have SCADA in our grid.”
The TCN CEO also announced the distribution company target of 10,000 megawatts of electricity in the next two years, if produced by the generation companies, GENCOS.
Abdulaziz revealed that the power company can transmit up to 8,500 megawatts of electricity, adding that the highest power generation in Nigeria has been 5,801 megawatts, which is below the transmission capacity.
The TCN Managing Director expressed optimism that with continued investment, the generation companies (Gencos) will be able to produce up to 10,000 megawatts within the next two years.
“For the first time in our nation’s history, the power sector recorded a new and unprecedented peak generation of 5,801.84 megawatts of electricity on March 4, 2025, at 21:15 hours. The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) efficiently evacuated this bulk power to distribution load centers nationwide.
“With the numerous TCN transmission projects completed in the last two years and new ones currently underway, as well as the 8,500 MW current evacuation capability of the company, I can confidently state that in less than two years from now, the Transmission Company of Nigeria will conveniently evacuate 10,000 megawatts of generated power.
“This unprecedented feat is the result of the hard work and dedication of our engineers in the generation, transmission, and distribution companies of the power sector value chain.
“So, we are still ahead of what is generated. We are saying that with the projects we are doing in the next two years, we will be able to transmit 10,000 if it is produced by the GENCOs. How did we reach that? It is by investment. The Transmission Company of Nigeria is 100% owned by the Federal Government. Up till now, there is nobody who has come and put his money. All these investments are coming from the federal government. We are doing new transmission lines. We are building new substations.
“We are conducting all transmission lines to make sure that access capacity can be transmitted.”
