One of the enduring legacy initiatives of His Excellency, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari, is his flagship intervention project in the power sector, the Presidential Power Initiative (PPI). This is yielding immediate impact in the area of Power System Modelling, System Development Studies and Capacity Development arising from transfer of technology & technical know-how under the Siemens’ Power Technology International (PTI) workstream of the project.
One of the greatest problems of the Nigerian Power Sector is the lack of coordination and misalignment in investment options. By looking at the power system for what it is, resolving the challenges in the sector can only be done by treating it as one integrated system, end-to-end. Such a holistic view of the power system has to be well planned, accurately modelled using network simulation tools based and load driven.
Now, the Presidential Power Initiative (PPI) is transforming the power sector using the Power System Simulation for Nigeria (PSS4N) work package of the PTI Project.
Training needs of the staff of the various agencies in the power sector were identified and a tailor-made training program was developed to address these gaps. 2 week training sessions were organized for staff of distribution companies (DisCos), Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Ministry of Power, Rural Electrification Agency (REA), National Power Training Institute of Nigeria (NAPTIN), Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency (NEMSA), etc.
Please read below the impact the training had on Efosa Arnold Omoroghomwan, one of the trainees who participated in the training.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4156541
I’m moved to excitement because this is one of the promising attendees from the training we gave on Network Modelling under the Presidential Power Initiative (PPI).
I took personal interest in each trainee, understood their particular needs, encourage them to get ready to write several papers on their work (to prepare them for professorship).
Efosa approached me to help pursue his goal of becoming a Professor. We started behind the scene discussions, dedicating hours over the weekend to develop this piece.
The aim is to develop power system planning engineers who are able to model the entire power system under various configurations.
A Power System Club has been formed to mentor youths from the tertiary institutions so that after NYSC, they can be absorbed into TCN or any of the DisCos. The academics and industry professionals will also be given the same training in due course.
Look! Once we have more than enough, we will also export skills and generate forex for Nigeria since we will soon have more than we require.
Idowu Oyebanjo PhD
12 comments
Well done 👍. May Almighty Jehovah continue to strengthen you sir
Thanks my sister
You are on the point . Your efforts will be crowned in Jesus Name
Thanks. We must raise the next generation of power engineers and upskill them for the future power system envisioned for Nigeria.
Good, God Almighty will continue endow you more knowledge and skills to attain greater heights.
Thanks my Principal.
Leaving an indelible mark.
It’s a great pleasure working with you to make a mark.
God bless you sir and give your great reward. I believe the next government will continue from where this present government stop. God bless my dear country Nigeria.
A multimillion dollar idea… Greater works sir…