National Grid: NERC issues guidelines for electricity transmission audit

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC has issued guidelines for the Technical Audit of the Electricity Transmission System and Network Data Validation, 2026.

NERC disclosed this successful a announcement posted connected its authoritative X relationship connected Monday.

The regulator said the determination is pursuant to Sections 34 and 226 of the Electricity Act, 2023, arsenic good arsenic Section 7.2.2 of the Grid Code.

It noted that the Guidelines, which takes effect from 20 July 2026, are aimed astatine establishing a transparent model for conducting periodic method audits of Nigeria’s energy transmission system, validating transmission web information to heighten the reliability, safety, security, and operational ratio of the nationalist grid.

Accordingly, NERC said the Guidelines use to the Nigerian Independent System Operator, NISO and each licensed Transmission Service Providers, TSPs operating wrong the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry, NESI.

Specifically, the Guidelines necessitate NISO to behaviour a broad method appraisal of the 330-kilovolt and 132-kilovolt transmission web astatine slightest erstwhile each 5 years.

The announcement reads: “Require NISO to prosecute suitably qualified consultants to behaviour a broad method audit of the 330kV and 132kV transmission web astatine slightest erstwhile each 5 (5) years, oregon arsenic different directed by the Commission.

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