The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu on Thursday said Nigeria is on track to add 150mw to the national grid before the end of 2024.

Adelabu made this known while speaking to the State House Correspondents after a closed-door meeting with German President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

According to him, the upgrade will be made due to the successful completion of the pilot phase of the Presidential Power Initiative (PPI).

He added that the positive impact of the upgrade has added nothing less than 750 megawatts to the transmission grid capacity, which is why there is relative stability in the grid today.

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“We have completed the pilot phase of this project, up to 80%. This involves the importation, installation, and commissioning of 10 power transformers and 10 powermobile substations.

“They’ve been imported. They’ve been installed, and lots of them have been commissioned. We have just about two left to be commissioned before the end of the year,” the minister said.
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“The positive impact of this is that it has added nothing less than 750 megawatts to our transmission grid capacity, which is why the relative stability that we are seeing in the grid today is the direct positive impact of the pilot stage completion. ⁣

”So we believe that before the end of the year, an additional 150 megawatts capacity is going to be added upon completion of the entire pilot phase.”