The Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited (NDPHC), proprietors of National Integrated Power Project (NIPP), has dispatched the 330kV Switching Station situated in Essien Udim/Ikot Ekpene nearby government region (LGA) of Awka Ibom State.
Dispatching the switchyard extend the Minister of Power Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, said the exchanging station involved three twofold circuit lines that extended more than 287 kilometers and will invigorate the Ikot Ekpene-Calabar, Ikot Ekpene-Alaoji, and Ikot-Ekpene-Ugwuaji Transmission Lines.
Fashola, who said the venture is intended to expand transmission framework limit, included that the finish of the exchanging station is proof that the transmission limit is not static at 5000 megawatts, MW, as being estimated.
The Minister clarified that all the power plants in the Eastern Region have joined limit of 1,846MW containing Calabar 561MW; in Alaoji 450MW; Ibom Power 185MW; and Afam VI 650MW. Before now, he said they were delivering at 100MW each for the initial three power plants separately, and 300MW at Afam VI, all totalling 600MW.
He included that with the charging of the Ikot Ekpene Switching Station, there will be incremental yield until full limit is accessible to add an additional 1,246MW to the lattice, and complimented the administration of NDPHC group for the effective execution of the venture.
Fashola talking on gas supply and transmission challenges, said: "You have heard the account of stranded power. That is power that is available in light of the fact that the plant exists yet has no gas.
That is valid, and Government is attempting to encourage gas access to those plants, for example, Calabar, where the Vice-President drove the consenting to of an assurance arrangement to guarantee gas supply to that plant.
"The opposite side of stranded power are plants that can't create to their full limit on the grounds that there is no transmission line to clear the ability to the DisCos available to be purchased to shoppers. Calabar falls in this classification, so does Alaoji Power Plant, Ibom Power Plant and Afam VI Power plant.
"This means we are centered around advancing on our essential and fleeting objective of getting incremental power anyplace and all over, and focused on accomplishing the objective set out by Mr. President in the short term."
Additionally, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer NDPHC, Chiedu UgboUgbo, recorded the segments of the offices that were charged to include:
· 35KM 330kV Alaoji Substation to Ikot-Ekpene Substation Double Circuit line to empty power from NIPP Alaoji Power Plant;
· 70.3KM 330kV Double Circuit line from Calabar to Ikot Ekpene to clear power from NIPP Calabar Power Plant;
· 162km 330kV Double Circuit line to clear all power touching base from Ikot Ekpene changing Station to the network at Ugwuaji, and;
· the 12 circuit Ikot Ekpene 330kV Switching Station to serve as the focal exchanging center for getting created control from four producing areas at Alaoji, Afam, Calabar and Ikot-Abasi separately.
Ugbo clarified that the Switching Station will wheel all the ability to the framework by means of the 330kV Double Circuit lines to Ugwuaji, New Haven and whatever remains of the network associating Makurdi and Jos in the north focal zone of the nation.
He reviewed that the tasks began in 2006, yet were deferred because of interruptions in NIPP financing in 2008, and various group and way leave issues some of which dragged into extended court cases, yet the Federal Government's intercession made ready for the finishing and appointing of the venture.
Ugbo recognized three basic advantages of the whole transmission systems to incorporate the expanded unwavering quality of the national network, help and strength of intensely stacked lines, and making more ways accessible for power notwithstanding possibilities.
He included that more trades between gatherings in the country's vitality market will now get to be distinctly conceivable because of accessibility of new transmission ways.
The Deputy Governor of Awka Ibom State, Moses Frank Ekpo, who spoke to the Governor, Udom Emmanuel, communicated the state's savor the experience of the government's fruition of the Switching Station.
He however bemoaned that the general population of the group and Akwa Ibom State as a rule, won't profit by the venture regarding enhanced nature of force supply. This is on the grounds that the station has no transformer to drop the heap, but instead, will get control from all the power stations (Alaoji, Afam, Calabar, Ikot Abasi) and wheel same to Ugwuaji in Enugu up to Makurdi and Jos.
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