German multinational conglomerate company, Siemens, has concluded plans to train electricity Distribution Companies and other electricity stakeholders in the country.
Siemens in a statement on Thursday stated that 11 DISCOs, Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), and regulators would be trained on all the equipment and software being provided in the phase 1.
According to the company, the training was part of its phase 1 pre-engineering contract of providing 25,000mw of electricity to the nation.
It would be recalled that the Federal Government and Siemens signed a Letter of Agreement on the countrys Electrification Road map in July 2019, after President Buhari and the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, met on Aug. 31, 2018, in Abuja.
The Presidential Power Initiative (PPI), formerly, the Nigeria Electrification Roadmap aims to upgrade the countrys electricity network to achieve operational capacity of 25,000 megawatts (MW) from the current average of around 4,500 MW.
The PPI is expected to go through a series of projects spanning three phases across four major states to achieve the electricity target by 2025.
The first phase is expected to increase the operational capacity to 7,000 MW.
Phase 1 will also focus on significantly reducing the AT