Apo sub-station to power 7,000 homes in FCT– Minister

Minister of state 11 for Power, Works and Housing, Surveyor Hassan Zarma, has said that additional over 7000 houses in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are expected to enjoy improved power supply through a 60MVAR 132 KV capacitor bank installed at the Apo power sub station, Abuja.
Zarma, who stated this in Abuja yesterday during an inspection tour of the facility, said the capacitor bank would improve the credit rate of the country in transforming power supply in quantity and quality. According to him, before President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, the capacitor bank at the Apo sub station stood at about 190MW but is now 290MW with the intervention of the ministry. The Minister described the feat as one of the achievements recorded by the All Progressives Congress (APC)- led federal government, saying it was a promise kept. He disclosed that the government was committed to improving the power supply in the country.
The Managing Director, Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Mr. Usman Muhammed, who conducted the minister round the facility, said aside the capacitor bank, they are putting up additional 330KVA in the FCT in addition to the existing ones to ensure improved power supply in the territory. Muhammed also gave the assurance that the company would complete the capacitor bank project currently ongoing in Keffi , Nassarawa state by June this year to improve power supply in the area. The Power Capacitor banks both in Apo and Keffi substations are valued at 1.317 billion Japanese.
The project was executed by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), through mutual cooperation between the Nigerian and Japanese governments to improve electricity supply in the FCT and Nassarawa state.