TCN Shuts Down Electricity Supply To The Discos Supplying Kaduna & Kano
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TCN Shuts Down Electricity Supply To The Discos Supplying Kaduna & Kano

TCN as market operator has shut down supply to the DISCOs supplying Kaduna & Kano,

As the state governors begin to navigate the murky waters of the transfer of power (bill 33) from the exclusive to concurrent legislative lists, the Nigeria Governors Forum will need to sit down in meetings with GENCOs & help them work through issues like:

• Cost of servicing their turbines/FX for spare parts
• Cost of LPFO & what will happen when NGMC deregulates the prices of Gas (Dec 2023)
• Increase in transmission pipes to supply more gas needed by GENCOs

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• How deregulation of gas prices will impact the PPA signed with NBET

considering the current historical tariff shortfall from the multi-year tariff order (MYTO).

The NGF will need to incentivize the GENCOs to raise their generation capacity and lay out a plan that will:

• Phase out the historical tariff shortfall
• Privatize a section of TCN

as a means to ensure that the capacity load supplied to a decentralized grid (in the future) is taken fully, and not lost because either the grid keeps collapsing or NBET is unable to pay all their load in the final settlement statement (FSS).

*Considering that the North Central, North West, North-East has a gas supply shortage (and AKK was meant to solve that). And CNG trucks has a limit of 500km it can travel from South South to the North-West & North-East,

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Increasing the number of internal transmission pipes for gas, and converting those associated gas from well-heads for gas trapped from future drilling sites in Bauchi (Kolmani 89) and Nasarawa (Ebenyi A) exploration Wells, is key.