The Transmission Company of Nigeria has upgraded four transmission substations in Lagos as part of efforts to strengthen electricity supply across the state.
The facilities are the Apapa Road, Ijora, Lekki and Alausa transmission substations. While the Apapa Road substation was funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency, others were funded by the World Bank.
The Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, who unveiled the transmission substations on Monday and Tuesday, said the Federal Government was addressing longstanding constraints in the transmission network, which had limited the evacuation of available electricity generation.
“For many years, transmission infrastructure has been one of the major constraints in our efforts to provide reliable electricity. We have generated electricity that cannot be adequately evacuated. We have had available generation constrained by transmission limitations, even though growing demand would have required corresponding improvement in transmission capacity,” he said.
Tegbe said the Tinubu administration inherited infrastructure that in several locations suffered from years of inadequate maintenance and delayed investment.
