Energy Minister States Purpose Behind Incessant Nationwide Grid Collapse
The nationwide electrical energy grid will stay vulnerable to collapse because of the authorities’s incapability to restore a vital transmission line in northern Nigeria owing to persistent insecurity.
That is based on the Minister of Energy, Adebayo Adelabu, who spoke through the 2025 price range protection session with the Senate Joint Committee on Energy.
Adelabu highlighted the impression of the broken Shiroro-Kaduna-Mando line, which has been out of service since a vandalism incident in October 2024. This failure has positioned immense strain on the grid, resulting in frequent collapses.
“The Kaduna-Shiroro-Mando line was one of many two main strains transmitting energy to the north. The second, the Ugwuaji-Makurdi line, was additionally vandalized however has been repaired. The Shiroro-Mando-Kaduna line, nonetheless, stays down as a result of insecurity,” he stated on Monday.
“This is the reason our grid is so fragile, because it depends on a single line, inflicting pointless pressure.”
The minister emphasised that whereas grid collapses are anticipated to proceed, the federal government is concentrated on lowering their frequency and making certain fast restoration occasions.
Energy Minister Adebayo Adelabu says the federal government will work on faster restoration when the facility grid collapses.
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He underscored that the collaboration particularly with the workplace of the Nationwide Safety Adviser (NSA) Nuhu Ribadu is crucial to addressing vandalism, which stays one of the vital important challenges dealing with the facility sector.
The minister equally introduced a N2 trillion price range for the ministry and its companies, out of which N229 billion belongs to the ministry.
He revealed a N700 billion fund allotted to the Energy Metering Initiative (PMI), geared toward considerably lowering the metering hole by subsequent month, to significantly improve billing transparency and cut back fraud within the system.
“We acknowledge the problems with full or partial grid collapses, however our focus is on lowering the time it takes to revive energy. We’re actively collaborating with safety companies to realize this,” Adelabu stated.
The minister additionally disclosed plans to speculate N36 billion within the distribution of transformers throughout the six geopolitical zones.
As a part of efforts to handle insecurity, Adelabu has proposed the set up of photo voltaic lights and Closed Circuit Tv (CCTV) cameras on highways throughout the nation, geared toward monitoring the actions of vandals and different felony components, enhancing safety and defending crucial infrastructure.
The proposal is included below a N200 billion sub-head within the 2025 price range.