regarding the government’s readiness to address the numerous challenges bedeviling the sector. KINGSLEY JEREMIAH writes on the apparent fault lines in the Memorandum of Understanding.
Considering the campaign promises of the All Progressives Congress -led government on the power sector, and the persistent call for a review of the privatisation arrangement five years on, the Federal Government’s intervention in the sector is not only expected to present a new ray of hope for the wobbling sector, but show a clear-cut action plan aimed at improving the sector to Nigerians, and giving them a new lease of life.
Phase three, which hovers around developing the system up to 25 GW capacity, in the long run, is expected to appropriate upgrades and expansions in the generation, transmission, and distribution. In Egypt for instance, Siemens reportedly assisted in the implementation of the country’s power generation project, where about 14.4 GW of electricity has been added to the national grid through combined cycle power plants, wind turbines, sustainable wind farms, as well as, gas-insulated switchgear substations.
In 1964, the company started its major power project with the building of a hydroelectric power plant in Kainji. In the early 2000s, the company had another key project- building the world’s largest end flash gas single-shaft compressor manufactured for Nigeria’s LNG, and NNPC.
The SCADA and Energy Management System were meant to automate the transmission grid so that the System Operator of TCN can monitor all operations on the national electricity grid. With SCADA and EMS, it could generate data, track offenders, and monitor all core networks of generation, transmission, and distribution.
It was recently gathered that Siemens’ management had gone to plead with the presidential task force for political support on SCADA, and they were reportedly told, “you are the SCADA expert, you knew what was wrong with the contract and the field performance, yet you kept invoicing and looked the other way when you should have been protecting your reputation.”
Executive Secretary of Association of Power Generation Companies , Joy Ogaji, insisted that Siemens’ plan doesn’t capture many things, adding that the document focused basically on the technical solution and “on how Siemens or German government gets paid back their investment.
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