By Emmanuel Addeh
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has completed the ‘reconductoring’ of its new 130 kilometres 132kV double circuit Sokoto – Birnin Kebbi Transmission Line, which has also been energised.
The new high capacity 132kV transmission line which affects and transverses 405 towers along the Birnin Kebbi – Sokoto line route, the company said, now transmits about 170MW, which is more than double the 70MW capacity previously transmitted by the decommissioned old 132kV transmission line.
The TCN noted that the new 132kV transmission line has solved the low voltage and attendant poor power situation that was prevalent in the Sokoto axis, saying it is now enabled to substantially transmit increased bulk power electricity to Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company’s (KEDC) distribution load centres in Sokoto State and environs.