Grid Collapse: TCN Promises Backup System to End Blackouts
Politics tamfitronics Grid Collapse: TCN Promises Backup System to End BlackoutsThe Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), has promised a backup or buffer system to ensure that Nigerians won’t be thrown into blackout whenever the national grid collapses.TCN Managing Director, Sule Abdulaziz, stated this Channels Television’s Sunday Politics programme.He blamed aged infrastructure as old as 50 years for the frequent grid collapses in the country.Abdulaziz said, “Presently, we are doing the scatter system for the whole network and it is funded by the World Bank, and the project will take two years to be completed, and now, we have done 70% of the project.“Almost a month ago, we were at Gwagwalada (in Abuja) with the World Bank where we celebrated the project. It is 70 percent completed. Once we have the scatter system, it will reduce...
