The supply of electricity to consumers
across the country has fallen by 360.88
megawatts in the last one week and the
Federal Government has again attributed the
development to the vandalism of pipelines
that transport gas to power plants.
Specifically, the energy sent out to
electricity consumers plunged from
3,424.11MW on February 17 to 3,063.23MW
on Wednesday, while the average national
demand stood at 12,800MW.
Within the same period, peak electricity
generation fell from 3,768.2MW to
3,224.8MW, while energy generation also
dropped from 3,494.96MW to 3,131.8MW.
The PUNCH had on Monday reported
exclusively that the country was losing over
1,500MW of power despite claims by
President Goodluck Jonathan that he had
delivered on his promise to supply electric to
Nigerians.
The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo,
has often blamed the fall in power supply to
continued puncturing of gas pipelines.
He had said in Lagos last week, “Power
generation in the country today has
improved tremendously with actual
generation/transmission capacity
consistently hovering around 5,000MW, up
from 2,800MW in 2011.
“Currently, the major challenge to increased
power generation is the limitation in gas
supply as a result of the activities of
vandals who are bent on visiting hardship on
the entire nation.”
Speaking in Abuja on Thursday, Nebo again
said the country could boast of only four
days of free flow of gas to the power
plants without interruption by vandals.
He said, “We have only had four days of free
flow of gas without vandalism. That tells you
how horrible the situation with vandalism is.
Vandalism is affecting our capacity to
generate electricity.
“We are hoping that in the next two weeks,
when the other pipelines that are being
repaired and the ones that are being
serviced are put in use, we will come back to,
and even go beyond where we are.”
Asked if securing the pipelines was beyond
the abilities of the security agencies, the
minister said, “It is not beyond them. When
you are talking about thousands of
kilometres on one stretch, to police this is
not easy. Because when these things were
instituted or installed, nobody thought that
Nigerians would hate themselves enough to
directly vandalise the pipelines.
“What we are now trying to do, using the
various security agencies, especially the
Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps,
the Navy, Army, Police, and so on, is to make
sure that these places are garrisoned. But
this will not stop the problem.
“The most critical is what Mr. President is
trying to do now: deploy resources to
digitally survey the pipelines. It is very
expensive. But we have to do that. Until
that happens, we still have to worry about
vandalism.”
The minister advocated for embedded
generation of power and noted that this
would help address the pains of pipeline
vandalism.
“But if you have embedded power, or
embedded generation, it goes back directly to
the Discos. Others will generate this power
and sell to the Discos, but the Nigerian
Electricity Regulatory Commission will have
to moderate and make sure that customers
are not sub-charged, swindled and don’t have
to pay unnecessary charges,” Nebo said.
I think this guy, like his clueless boss should just resign. He/ they just not fit for purpose....

Didn't the lying FG just "add" 750MW to the grid?

This must be the transformation those calling for his re-election be waiting for

How come we never hear of vandalism in the rainy season?
Useless lies from a useless government.

Jonathan/PDP spend trillion in Power sector just generate Darkness.

We need Change in Nigeria. We can't continue like this. Vote Buhari.

Excuses for failure. This one I don't need statistics to tell me power has dropped. My bulbs tell me in very clear English.

Mynd44:
Didn't the lying FG just "add" 750MW to the grid?

This must be the transformation those calling for his re-election be waiting for

The more megawatts they add, the less electricity we get. law of pdpism

egift:
Jonathan/PDP spend trillion in Power sector just generate Darkness.

We need Change in Nigeria. We can't continue like this. Vote Buhari.

The man who spent the most of that money to buy us BLACKOUT is called General Olusegun Obasanjo, the navigator of APCheat.
Abi you nor hear and even sef see the time wen im bin tear im PDP card ni
Kindly address your wails, tears and whines to his address in Abeokuta or Ota


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How abouy this one for another excuse?.
Seplat shut down cuts 528mw from national
grid
 February 27, 2015
By Anayo Korie / Ag Energy Editor
The Seplat Petroleum Company recent shut
down is costing the nation 528ww of
electricity daily. The company shut down the
Oben gas plant for 10 days to enable it expand
the gas facility to meet demand for its
customers . The facility which was initially
owned by Shell Nigeria before divestment to
the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation
(NNPC) is vital in the supply of gas needed for
power generation.
Seplat Petroleum Company
The 10-day long shut-down, will enable the
company to complete its expansion unit with
the existing plant, The exercise will reduce gas
supply to the country’s power generating
plants by 135 million standard cubic feet of
gas per day..
Though, several power plants fired on gas in
the country consume different brands of gas
depending on their location,Daily independent
learnt that over 135mmscf per day generates
an average of 528 megawatts of electricity .
Before the shut-down, power generation stood
at 4,000 mw , due to persistence of vandalism
of gas supply pipelines by unpatriotic
Nigerians .
The Chief Executive Officer of Seplat
Petroleum, operators of NPDC/Seplat Joint
Venture, Mr. Austin Avuru, in a statement
made public recently said that the shutdown,
which will end by March 5, will enable the
company to complete its newly installed, 2 x
75 million standard cubic feet of gas daily unit
into the company’s existing gas plant.
He said that the exercise will allow , Seplat
operate a single homogenous plant consisting
of 2 by 45 million standard cubic feet and 2
by75 million standard cubic feet trains and will
be able to supply 240million standard cubic
daily, . This facility expansion and upgrades
will bring the company’s overall daily gas
production capacity to over 300million
standard cubic daily.
Avuru further stated that during the shutdown,
Seplat’s current daily production of 135
mmscf, from Oben node will “not be available,
however, the company will maintain gas
availability of 60mmscf daily from its Sapele
node.”
According to him, the shut-down provides the
company an opportunity to enhance its current
gas delivery into the national gas grid.
He added that this achievement aligns with
Seplat’s short to medium term domestic gas
commercialisation strategy, while facilitating
greater power generation in the country.
http://dailyindependentnig.com/2015/02/seplat-shut-cuts-528mw-national-grid/
"Never ascribe to malice what is best explained by incompetence" - Napoleon Bonaparte

Lol. PDP get too many robots walahi....thers another one like that, always ftc. Der mata don tire d universe
In other news, anyone interested in the manufacture of SPEECH BOMBs, do check my sigi......

Obiagelli:

You are due for reprogramming, you need new lines.

This present government should adopt this slogan:

It's always not our fault.