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Fashola: Some states enjoying almost 24 hours power supply as transmission capacity increases

David Adenekan
David Adenekan
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Following the increase in transmission capacity, some states of the federation are enjoying increased supply of electricity.

According to the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, some states were already enjoying almost 24 hours power supply.

Fashola who made this known on Wednesday when he spoke on a Channels Television programme, however said distribution had remained a major problem despite the increase in the transmission by about 8,100 watts in December.

He also spoke about the readiness of the government to install more transformers in order to increase the distribution.

His words:  “Sitting down here I can tell you some states that have almost 24 hours – Kebbi, Yobe. Some have five, some have 10 and there are still outages.

“The generation capacity is also increasing. It is a value chain where the distribution is not matching up the available power and from time to time, there are slacks.

“The short term goals are incremental power and stable supply in some places.

“The government has decided that as 40 per cent holder of everything in the distribution of power, we have our programme to invest N72 billion which will involve installing transformers and all of that.”

He added:  “We created a metre access provider regulation. What it does is to create a new plan of investment programme. We manufacture, produce, supply and install metres and fill the gap the distribution companies cannot raise capital to fill. They cannot do so alone, they must do so under a procurement policy with the distribution company.

“We are applying many solutions at the same time. So when we were talking about how much megawatts is being used, we have created a new page which will bring solution.”

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