Indigenous Firm Adds 590MW To National Grid

A subsidiary of Transnational Corporation PLC., Transcorp Power Limited, is currently adding 590megawatts (MWs) of electricity to the national grid.
Speaking at the 2021 yearly general meeting, in Abuja, at the weekend, Chairman of the group, Tony Elumelu, hinted that Transcorp Power increased its generating capacity from 390MWs to 470MWs in May 2021, consequently bringing the company’s combined generating capacity to 590MWs.
The group has two gas-fired power plants in Ughelli and Afam, in Delta and Rivers states, acquired in a divestment deal with Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC).
He added: “We will continue our engagements with our existing gas suppliers and explore gas supply from other producers to diversify our supply base, thereby ensuring adequate gas supply to our power plants in Ughelli and Afam, and achieving optimum utilisation of their capacity despite general gas supply issues at various points of the year.
“We are equally pursuing our long-term integrated energy strategy to secure our gas requirements through our OPL 281 asset and other related assets.”
This achievement comes as the company has transformed from Transnational Corporation of Nigeria PLC into Transnational Corporation PLC.
Elumelu hinted that Transcorp Power’s revenue also improved by 14per cent, from N65.1billion to N74.3billion, which accounts for around 70per cent of the total group revenue.
Also, the profit before tax (PBT) increased by 92per cent, from N12billion to N23.1billion.
“Gross earnings for the group increased to N111.2billion in 2021 from N75.3billion in 2020. Gross earnings for the company almost doubled to N5.13billion in 2021 from N2.7billion in 2020. PBT for the group increased to N28billion in 2021, from N1.6billion in 2020. PBT of the company increased to N4.02billion in 2021, from N2.7billion in 2020.
Elumelu added that Transnational Power has been able to increase the installed capacity of Afam Generating Company (GenCo) to nearly 2000MWs, adding that it has continued to work towards recovering more of the installed capacity.
“This acquisition also came with many advantages, including closeness to gas supply, sufficient evaluation capacity and brand new 240MWs Afam three fast power turbines. Our plan is to efficiently recover the capacity of Afam GenCo, leveraging on our experience from running Transcorp Power,” he said.
President/Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO), Transnational Corporation, Owen Omogiafo disclosed that the group would add 243MWs to the national grid in the next four weeks.