The Ikeja Electricity Distribution
Company and Eko Electricity Distribution Company account for over 40 per
cent of power consumption in Nigeria, Vice-President Namadi Sambo has
said.
This, he said was understandable from
the fact that Lagos, which used to be the country’s political capital
before Abuja, remained Nigeria’s commercial and industrial hub with a
large concentration of industries in the state and the adjoining Ogun
State.
Sambo spoke at the unveiling of the
Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited Oke-Aro 330/132kV transmission
substation under the National Integrated Power Projects in Lagos on
Friday.
Oke-Aro is situated in a border line
between Lagos and Ogun states, and the 330/132/33kV substation is said
to have distribution leg for the benefit of the two states.
The
vice-president, who was represented by the Minister of Power, Prof.
Chinedu Nebo, said the country was witnessing another great feat of the
current administration in power infrastructure capacity expansion to
boost economic and industrial development of the country.
He said, “Prior to the advent of Oke-Aro
substation, there were only three 330/132/33kV substations in Lagos.
One of these three is Ikeja West 330/132/33kV substation which was the
major marshalling point for all power plants that flow their generation
into Lagos, and this development had thrown the state into a state of
great congestion with limited space for safe expansion of capacity for
increased flows into Lagos and environs.
“All the 330kV power lines from the
Benin and Oshogbo 330kV hubs of the national grid, which were also
serving as evacuation lines for NIPP new power plants at Omotosho as
well as Olorunsogo, terminated there. Even 330kV evacuation lines for
older major power plants such as Egbin in Lagos also terminated at Ikeja
West.”
According to him, the need for
appropriate relief substations that could provide substantial
decongestion for Ikeja West in particular as well as the other two older
330kV substations in Lagos located at Akangba and Aja respectively
cannot be overemphasised.
“Oke-Aro substation was therefore
conceived with this need in mind and eventually sited in this community
which lies in the border between Lagos and Ogun States to interface
between Egbin power plant and the Ikeja West substation,” he explained.
Sambo said Oke-Aro 330/132/33kV substation is one of NIPP’s several interventions within Lagos and Ogun states.
In order to achieve the objective of
Oke-Aro serving as a relief to Ikeja West, he said two of the three
330kV evacuation lines from Egbin Power plant to Ikeja West were turned
in and out of Oke-Aro to effect connection of the substation to the
grid.
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