NDPHC Commissions Injection Substation Worth Over N200 Million In Agwan Dosa, Kaduna

The Managing Director, NDPHC, Chiedu Ugbo (Center); flanked by the Managing Director, News Engineering Nigeria Ltd, Lady Josephine Nwaeze (Left) and the Managing Director, Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company, Garba Haruna (Right), at the commissioning of a 15MVA, 33/11kv injection substation at Agwan Dosa, Kaduna, Monday.

***Resolves Acute Power Supply, Boost Economic Activities

By CLEMENT NWOJI, Abuja

The Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) has commissioned a 15MVA, 33/11kv injection substation worth over N200 million at Agwan Dosa, Kaduna for increased power supplies within the area and several surrounding locations.

The NDPHC Managing Director, Mr. Chiedu Ugbo, who performed the commissioning in company of the Managing Director of the Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company (KAEDCO), Garba Haruna, explained that the project was critical to boosting power supplies and stimulating socioeconomic activities within the location and adjoining areas.

The project was developed by the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) with the contractor, News Engineering as one of its several intervention projects towards achieving incremental power supplies and taking stranded power to areas off generation to the people.

Mr. Ugbo who commissioned the substation shortly after the 28th Power Sector stakeholders meeting held in Kaduna Monday, said that its energisation was completed in December, 2017 by Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company, stressing that “We have run the substation and now confident and comfortable that it can serve the people.”

He said: “The significance of the project is to serve this area called Agwan Dosa. We understand that before we completed this project, they were getting three hours of electricity but with this now the Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company Managing Director told me that the customers they serve who are connected to this substation receives an average of 15 and 18 hours of electricity.

“It is a 15MVA transformer substation stepped out from 33KV to 11KV. It also has two feeders going out from here to several areas. So the project is very critical for service delivery by the Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company and it is one of the intervention projects by the NDPHC essentially to ensure that the stranded generation in the power plants are taken and delivered to Nigerians.

“For whose benefits, especially the NIPP power stations? They are built for the benefits of Nigerians, so that they can enjoy the benefits of these investments the government has made on their behalf.

“We have several ongoing intervention projects may be about 100 of them. We have also completed several of them and we have been commissioning several of them across the country.

“We have completed so many of them while others are at between 80 and 95 percent completion stage and we are pushing to complete them as soon as possible.The cost of substation like this is around N200 Million.”

The project is a 15MVA, 33/11kv injection substation complete with 4.6km of 33kv overhead line from Mando Transmission Substation and 8km of 11kv overhead line and 60nos, completely Self Protected (CSP) distribution transformers .

It has two feeders radiating from the substation, which include Legislative feeders feeding Legislative quarters and Angwan Dosa area with a peak load of about 200 which is equivalent to 6.4MVA.

Also is the Rafin Gusa feeders ,serving Rafin Gusa area ,Hayin Kogi and some parts of Kawo areas with a peak load of about 340A which is equivalent to 6.5MVA.

The substation is about 70 percent peak load and the
feeders radiated from the substation and supplying load venters like: 1st Mechanise Army Division Kaduna, Kaduna state Legislative quartet’s, Entire Angwan Dosa Area, Zaria road Area, 30 Mosques,15 Churches, 45 schools, 30 Shopping complexes, 10 Hospitals, eight Private  clinics, and 23 Welders, among others.

The NDPHC Managing Director noted that this has enhanced small and medium Enterprises and improved economic activities with resultant positive effects on the socioeconomic well being within the area.