Akinwumi S. A. BadaChief Consulting Partner
areas of expertise
- Grid Telecommunications Management
- SCADA/Energy Management Systems
- Business transformation
- Restructuring and turnaround
- Integration
- Growth strategy
education
- M. Sc. Telecommunications Engineering, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
Engr. A. S. A. Bada graduated in 1981 from the Technical University of Budapest, Hungary. He joined the services of the National Electric Power Authority (now Power Holding Company of Nigeria) in Kaduna, Nigeria in 1984 as a member of the first group of professional telecommunications engineers recruited into the company.
He rose to the position of Assistant General Manager (Communications) – the first in NEPA – in 1999 and was deployed to the National Control Centre of the power utility. In this capacity, he was head of the telecommunications maintenance group of the utility. The group consisted of telecommunications and SCADA which is a supervisory, monitoring and controlling tool for grid stability and reliability. He was later redeployed to the Operations Sector of the utility at Corporate Headquarters.
Szotyola Energy comes up with results that are actually implementable in peculiar situations and greographical areas. That is their strength compared to other energy services providers.
Upon promotion to General Manager in 2002, he was transferred to the Transmission Sector of the utility. Here he was saddled with the following responsibilities amongst others:
- Setting off and compliance monitoring of utility-wide grid operational standards;
- Grid telecommunications, System Control And Data Acquisition/Energy Management System (SCADA/EMS).
He later got promoted to the position of Executive Director (System Operations), in which capacity he functioned as the System Operator of the Nigerian National Electricity Grid. He participated actively in the development of the Grid Code of the Nigerian Electricity Grid.
As Executive Director, he was seconded to the Presidency in 2010 and appointed as Senior Special Assistant to the President on Power Transmission and System Operations. In this capacity, he worked with the Presidential Task Force on Power as Senior Performance Monitor (Transmission and System Operations) till 2011 when he was appointed Chief Executive Officer, Transmission Company of Nigeria.
publications
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Szotyola Energy seeks partnership with GenCo Investors
The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) has called on prospective investors to express interest in purchasing 100 percent shareholding in any of the five power generation companies under the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) listed for sale. It said this in a document signed by the Director-General, Mr. Alex Okoh, and made available to reporters.
May 4, 2021 -
BPE Offers Five GenCos to Investors
The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) has called on prospective investors to express interest in purchasing 100 percent shareholding in any of the five power generation companies under the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) listed for sale. It said this in a document signed by the Director-General, Mr. Alex Okoh, and made available to reporters.
May 4, 2021
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