Nigeria is expected to take delivery of some power transformers ordered by the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari’s Presidential Power Initiative (PPI) from Italy in September 2022.
The transformers, procured through energy firm Siemens, have successfully passed the factory acceptance test in Trento, Italy.
A statement from the office of the Minister for Power, Engr Abubakar D. Aliyu, said the first batch of the transformers is expected to arrive in Nigeria in September 2022.
The Managing Director of Federal Government of Nigeria Power Company (FGN-Power), Mr Kenny Anuwe, who led a delegation which had engineers from Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), witnessed the factory acceptance test conducted on 28th July 2022 in Trento, Italy.
The Minister for Power had led a delegation to Germany in April when he paid visits to Siemens Energy factories in Berlin and Frankfurt, where he held meetings with the senior leadership of Siemens Energy on the need to fast-track the delivery of the early orders that would start the transformation of Nigeria’s electricity.
Commenting on the latest feat on the PPI, Engr Aliyu said: “The successful factory acceptance test shows Nigeria’s engagement with Siemens Energy is on track. It also shows the Federal Government’s commitment to addressing Nigeria’s electricity challenges.”
In December 2021, the Minister for Finance, Zainab Ahmed, and the Minister for Power, Engr Abubakar D. Aliyu, secured the approval of the Federal Executive Council of €63 million (Euro) for the procurement of equipment to boost power supply under the Presidential Power Initiative (PPI)—whose first phase would provide 10 mobile power substations and 10 transformers.
In 2018, President Buhari initiated the PPI that would enable Siemens Energy to upgrade Nigeria’s electricity systems.
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