Electrical energy shoppers in Lagos State ought to count on each day energy disruptions over the subsequent three weeks because the Transmission Firm of Nigeria (TCN) begins a crucial infrastructure improve on considered one of its main energy traces.
Based on a press release by the TCN on X, the corporate will perform upkeep work on the Omotosho–Ikeja West 330kV transmission line between July 28 and August 21, 2025, with each day exercise scheduled from 8:00 am to five:00 pm.
The improve, which has been permitted by the Nigerian Electrical energy Regulatory Fee (NERC) and the Nationwide Impartial System Operator (NISO), entails the set up of an Optical Floor Wire (OPGW) fibre cable. TCN says the set up is significant to totally operationalise the Supervisory Management and Knowledge Acquisition (SCADA) system, a key device for monitoring and managing Nigeria’s energy grid in actual time.
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To minimise disruptions, TCN says the road can be restored after every day’s work, and different circuits will stay in operation. Nonetheless, the corporate warns that “intermittent outages” and cargo shedding are anticipated in the course of the upkeep interval.
Lagos’s two electrical energy distribution firms — Ikeja Electrical and Eko Electrical energy Distribution Firm (EKEDC) — have notified clients of the probably influence.
In a public discover on X, Ikeja Electrical said: “Prospects could expertise intermittent energy provide and cargo shedding throughout our community because of the deliberate TCN outage.”
EKEDC issued the same advisory, noting that the challenge would have an effect on provide “throughout our community protection” in the course of the each day upkeep window.
