• Secures $1.4b multilateral funding for expansion projects

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has said the country’s transmission infrastructure can wheel more electricity than is currently being generated, as it puts its installed wheeling capacity at 8,700 megawatts (MW).

The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of TCN, Sule Ahmed Abdulaziz, disclosed this on Monday at the four-day Parliamentary/Stakeholders’ Engagement Summit on Power Sector Reforms in Nigeria held with members of the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Power Sector Reform and Expenditure Investigation.

Abdulaziz said the national grid had consistently demonstrated the ability to evacuate all available generation, stressing that transmission was not currently the binding constraint in the electricity value chain.

“The implication is clear: the national grid can currently transmit significantly more power than has ever been generated and supplied to it,” he said. “TCN has consistently wheeled all available generation, demonstrating that the transmission network is ready to support higher levels of electricity delivery.”

According to data cited by TCN from the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) February 2026 Operational Factsheet, the country’s installed generation capacity stands at 13,625MW. However, the highest power ever generated and delivered to the national grid remains 5,801.84MW, as recorded on March 4, 2025.

On the same date, TCN said it achieved a record daily energy delivery of 128,370.75 megawatt-hours (MWh). The company said its transmission wheeling capacity has now grown from about 7,000MW to 8,700MW following the expansion projects carried out in recent years.

Abdulaziz said the expansion was supported through strategic investments from the federal government and development partners. He further disclosed that between January 2024 and November 2025, TCN commissioned 82 power transformers nationwide, adding about 8,500MVA of transformation capacity to the grid.

He added that the company has also mobilised over $1.4 billion in development financing from multilateral partners, including the World Bank, African Development Bank (AfDB), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD), to support transmission expansion and modernisation.