Four West African countries of Niger, Togo, Benin and Burkina Faso are collaborating to buy the unutilised electricity produced in Nigeria.
The acting Managing Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and Chairman of the Executive Board of the West African Power Pool, Sule Abdulaziz, disclosed this on Wednesday.
He said the four countries were collaborating to make the power purchase from Nigeria through the Northcore Power Transmission Line currently being built.
He stated this at the WAPP meeting on the Northcore project in Abuja.
“The power we will be selling is the power that is not needed in Nigeria.
“The electricity generators that are going to supply power to this transmission line are going to generate that power specifically for this project. So, it is unutilised power.”
He said Nigeria was expecting new generators to participate in the energy export for the 875km 330KV Northcore transmission line from Nigeria through Niger, Togo, Benin to Burkina Faso.
“In addition, there are some communities that are under the line route, about 611 of them, which will be getting power so that there won’t be just a transmission line passing without impact,” he said.
