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According to him, the ongoing power sector reforms to standardise power equipment to boost power supply will end the incessant power outages and restore regular supply of electricity to consumers.
“Our responsibility as contained in the act that establishes NEMSA, is to certify power equipment and engineers handling power projects, because substandard equipment and incompetence in the handling of electrical projects has always been the major challenge in the power sector, especially in Nigeria where nobody wants to do the right thing,” he stated.
Ewesor said some of the electrical equipment in use were installed 20 years ago and warned that excess load on the 33 kilovolts (kV) line will lead to the total collapse of the system.
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Mon May 24 2021
The Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency (NEMSA) has warned the Distribution Companies (DisCos) to stop using 33 kilovolts (kV) lines to connect consumers, saying it will soon enforce the policy prohibiting the act.
The Managing Director of NEMSA, Engr Peter Ewesor, made this known during a two-day maiden management retreat for staff of the agency in Kano at the weekend.
Engr Ewesor said the policy reiterated that the 33KV line, which is called a sub-transmission line, “is supposed to carry power from a transmission station to an injection substation where the power voltage is now broken down to 11. Then the 11kv lines will now carry power to 11kv to 415 transformers that feed our houses.”