The Minister of Power, Mr. Joseph Tegbe, has announced a massive infrastructure upgrade aimed at boosting the nation’s transmission capacity to handle up to 7,000 megawatts of power.
Speaking at the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) Renewable energy outlook conference in Lagos, Tegbe revealed that the ministry is moving past reactionary maintenance to deliver deep, structural reorganisation across the entire power value chain.
He noted that the infrastructural upgrade builds upon recent progress, which includes the deployment of over 3,000 transmission lines and the completion of more than 100 advanced substations.
He, however, said that to prevent localized disruptions from escalating into nationwide blackouts, the government is actively exploring the tactical option of highlanding.
“This technical decoupling ensures that when a localized subsystem faces an operational issue, the fault can be contained, eliminating the need to shut down the entire national grid at once,” he said.
The Minister added that the infrastructure drive is calibrated to support a rapidly expanding decentralized market, clearing the way for community-based mini-grids and distributed solar power to feed into a more robust, stable national transmission network.