The nation’s power supply slumped by 623.76 megawatts in three days, worsening the rationing that electricity distribution companies have been subjecting consumers to in recent days.

The drop in the nation’s electricity generation has caused reduction in load allocation from the national grid to Discos.

Electricity generated on Thursday, February 25, stood at 3,601.78MW, down from 4,245.53MW on February 22, according to data obtained from the Presidential Task Force on Power and Federal Ministry of Power.

Power supply to households and businesses across the country dropped on Thursday to 3,531.88MW from 4,155.64MW on Monday.

On Wednesday, electricity generation was 3,697.31MW, while 3,625.42MW was sent out that day, the data showed.

The nation achieved its peak generation of 5,074.70MW on February 2, when 4,541.85MW was generated and 4,447.88MW was sent out.

Electricity supply had on February 14, dropped to 3,485MW, out of the 3,558.39 generated that day, according to data from the Ministry of Power.

Eko Electricity Distribution Plc on Friday explained the reason for the current power rationing and intermittent outage being experienced in areas under its coverage in the past few weeks.

The company, in a statement signed by its Head of Corporate Communications, Mr. Idemudia Godwin, said the power supply instability was partly due to inadequate bulk electricity load allocation to the company from the national grid.

It said this arose from a drop in the national generation level as a result of incessant acts of vandalism on gas pipelines and transmission towers.

Eko Disco said the situation was not limited to the company’s coverage areas alone, adding that all parts of the country were affected since the problem had to do with low generation level.

It said the situation had led to acute power rationing in all areas within the company’s operational territory.

According to the statement, areas worst hit by the resultant power rationing include Surulere, Lekki, Ajah, Ibeju, Mushin, Apapa, Yaba and their environs.

EKEDP appealed to all its customers to bear with the situation, assuring them that it was doing all within its powers to ensure a fair and equitable distribution of available power to all customers pending the time there would be a significant improvement in the national power generation level.

The recent 488.7MW fall in electricity generation came after the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, had promised that the country would increase its power production by 2,000MW before the end of this year.

He stated that given the various plans undertaken by the present administration in the sector, power generation would increase by 2,000MW in the last quarter of 2016.

Fashola stated that a lot had changed in the management of power in Nigeria in recent times.

“Distribution of power is no longer a government business but has been taken over by private companies. Also, government has privatised power generation, which has steered towards the full privatisation of the sector with transmission aspect being managed by Manitoba International of Canada,” he had said.

The Managing Director, System Operation/Market Operation, Transmission Company of Nigeria, Dipak Sarma, had attributed the recent achievements in electricity generation to the enhanced cooperation among all stakeholders and concerted efforts by the system operators at the National Control Centre and other stations to ensure that generated electricity was wheeled to the distribution companies and that there was no stranded power.

The System Operator had stated that the attainment of the record peak generation of 5,074.7MW was achieved alongside the maximum daily energy of 109,372MW per hour, which was wheeled nationwide.... The Punch.

Fashola told us that electricity under his watch will stabilize in 6 months. He went on to castigate Bath Nnaji, someone who read all these in school, but Fashola? No. He read law... So tell me how a lawyer will stabilize power? This is ridiculous.... Power generation has dropped to an abysmal lowwwwwww!
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