The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has reportedly given the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) its approval to procure extra power to serve as spinning reserve that could stabilise Nigeria’s electricity grid when there are unforeseen disturbances.

THISDAY gathered this much from the Managing Director of the TCN, Mr. Usman Mohammed, in Abuja, when the TCN hosted a workshop to review its plans to procure and install brand new Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Energy Management System (EMS).
The commission according to Mohammed, had asked the transmission company to go ahead with its plan to advertise to procure the spinning reserve from existing operators in the country’s electricity market.

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