Following the approval of Transmission Company of Nigeria's five-year Performance Improvement Plan (PIP), by the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, (NERC), a committee set-up to interface with stakeholders recently held a consultative meeting with representatives of the eleven Distribution Companies (DisCos) in Lagos and Abuja, respectively.

Chairman of the Committee who is also the General Manager, System Planning and Development, Engr. Kabiru Adamu, said the meeting was called to discuss NERC requirements and expectations as well as ways of achieving alignment with parties involved in terms of investment and projects time-line.

Adamu stated that the 5-year PIP forecast covering 2023– 2027, is to enable TCN invest properly towards a significant improvement in grid performance, reliability and security as well as reduce significant system losses. 

According to him, the plan will among other things, help to maintain efficient dispatch of generated electricity throughout the value chain, as well as ensure safety of the transmission infrastructure and system automation in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry.

He further stressed that, “alignment across the three segments of the value chain is absolutely important, irrespective of the performance of each of the segments individually. if there is no alignment in terms of how the operation is streamlined, electricity users are going to suffer because any misalignment has a negative influence on the quality of service to be delivered to Nigerians.”

During the engagement, the Eleven (11) Distribution Companies were made to understand the goal of the PPI, with emphasis on the need for their buy-in, necessary to ensure that the requisite alignment is achieved. The guidelines, and areas they need to work on, and importantly, the need for feedback to TCN to enable it harmonise and put final alignment in place that would help the committee establish a five-year performance improvement plan across the value chain.