The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Engr. Dr. Sule Abdulaziz has enjoined Regional Transmission Managers (RTM), under the Transmission Service Provider (TSP) Business Unit of TCN, to remain diligent and dedicated in the discharge of their duties.

The TCN helmsman who stated this during a Management Meeting held in February, 2023, at the Company’s Corporate Headquarters in Abuja, charged the RTM’s to sensitize regional staff, especially operators on the organisation's Service Level Agreement (SLA) and its consequences if a substation or line is out of service, noting that for the Company's revenue to improve, workers must be at their best always.

He further stated that TCN had made significant progress in various areas of operations since the last management meeting, with the delivery of new transformers across its regional offices, completion of new transmission lines and other rehabilitation projects across the grid to enhance the company’s wheeling capacity.  

Also speaking, the Executive Director, Transmission Service Provider, Engr. Victor Adewunmi, explained that the meeting was to enable Management review achievements and challenges of the previous year as well as plan for the next operating year.

Engr Adewunmi further explained that every Region has a critical role to play in TCN’s revenue generation even as he cautioned that the era of regions delaying maintenance was over.

In his words, “For every outage time, for every time the equipment is down, we are losing revenue because we signed Service Level Agreement (SLA) with the DisCos and GenCos. So, whatever is being generated, we must effectively deliver to the DisCos 100% without any loss".

He charged regional heads to keep a keen eye on every TCN equipment as the smallest piece of equipment in the system that is neglected could cause big problems.

He, lauded the efforts of all the regional heads on progress made especially regarding system stability, noting that so far, in the year, only one system disturbance can be traced to TCN.

He tasked the RTM’s to challenge themselves to do better as all hands must be on deck and ready to do better this year to deliver more proactively on its mandate.

While presenting a paper on “TCN Performance Improvement Plan (PIP)”, the General Manager, System Planning and Development, Engr. Kabiru M. Adamu emphasized the need for the organisation to have a five-year master plan and ensure that it was captured in the PIP.

He emphasized that all the infrastructural investments TCN would be making in the next five years are strategically planned to align with the distribution companies to address misalignment at transmission and distribution interface points which in the long run will enhance optimal network capacity and better service delivery.

The two-day meeting featured robust paper presentations, discussions and planning on the way forward for TCN.