Management of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has announced that it has attained a new electricity transmission peak of 4545MW through its national network.

The announcement, which was made on Tuesday confirmed that it was the first of such feat since Nigeria began its struggle against epileptic power supply.

A statement signed by the General Manager, Public Affairs, Seun Olagunju, stated that the latest peak was achieved at 21.45hrs on Monday.

It will be recalled that the previous power transmission peak was 4517MW and was attained on 23rd December, 2012.

Recently, the TCN management had informed the general public that following improvement in fuel supply to power plants, electricity wheeling to the distribution companies had improved.

TCN further assured that it would continue to work towards enhancing its power wheeling capability and reliability of the network to be able to deliver more quality electricity from the generation plants to the distribution companies nationwide.