Blackout Looms Nationwide As PHCN Plans To Shut 5 Power Plants
On October 10, 2011 · In News


 



By OSCARLINE ONWUEMENYI

ABUJA – The Power Holding Company of Nigeria,PHCN, has announced plans to shut down five power plants across the country, a plan that will drastically reduce the present state of power generation.

The announcement, which was made, yesterday, by the company may likely hurt the Federal Government’s ambition to attain about 5,000 megawatts of electricity by the end of December.

Few weeks ago,  government celebrated the achievement of over 4,050 Mw, marking the highest quantum of electricity generated in the history of the nation.

PHCN, in a statement, said it “regrets to inform its esteemed customers nationwide of the notice received from Nigeria Gas Company Limited,NGC, of the planned shutdown of Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, Utorogu and Ughelli East Gas Plants, Oben, Sapele and Ogharefe gas plants of Saplet and Pan Ocean for maintenance purposes.

“This will be for seven days, commencing October 11, 2011.”

The maintenance, according to NGC, will lead to complete shutdown of Geregu, Sapele, Ughelli, Omotosho and Olorunsogo power stations throughout the period, thus resulting to a cut back in generation of over 1400Mw.

It added that, “This loss of generation will entail minimal load shedding in many parts of the country.

“We, therefore, appeal to our valued customers and other stakeholders for understanding and support, while assuring that power supply situation will considerably improve once gas supply is restored to these stations.”


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More grace to their elbow,Nigeria is developing.

Hahahahaha.

This is no news, Nigerians are already used to darkness. Abeg, make I go buy fuel for my gen jare.

at least we should be happy they informed us before hand-we are really developing!

Bleep phcn.Bleep nigeria.in my own view think some people are getting something big from this.

Must PHCN shutdown all those at once for maintenance purpose? Can't the shutdown be down in phases to reduce the ugly effect?

na oyinbo u dey talk! blackman plan waitin stage by stage or step by step?

this is not a new thing anymore, i did my youth service then at PHCN power station in sapele (ogorode). there were 10 steam powered turbines that were functional when this power station was commissioned then in the 70s by obasanjo. as at 2006 when i did my NYSC, it was only 3 out of the 10 that is still functioning and 1 of these 3 was about to break down due to lack of maintenance. and i was told by the coppers that were still der after my service that the fed. govt had started construction for another 10 turbines to be powered by gas.
in delta state alone, there are 2 power stations and as at 2006 these 2cities (ughelli & sapele) still dont get 24hrs constant electricity supply so shutting these stations down will be of no impact to these cities

llbhuds:

this is not a new thing anymore, i did my youth service then at PHCN power station in sapele (ogorode). there were 10 steam powered turbines that were functional when this power station was commissioned then in the 70s by obasanjo. as at 2006 when i did my NYSC, it was only 3 out of the 10 that is still functioning and 1 of these 3 was about to break down due to lack of maintenance. and i was told by the coppers that were still der after my service that the fed. govt had started construction for another 10 turbines to be powered by gas.
in delta state alone, there are 2 power stations and as at 2006 these 2cities (ughelli & sapele) still dont get 24hrs constant electricity supply so shutting these stations down will be of no impact to these cities

And what exactly is your point?

jamace:

Must PHCN shutdown all those at once for maintenance purpose? Can't the shutdown be down in phases to reduce the ugly effect?

Good question

if we could wait from time immemorial till now, then at least we can wait for "seven days"

Awesome!

omg who cares we all have our gens.

Naija has a very very very very high threshold of tolerance.

PLAN B! I trust,alwes available.even if una no inform us ahead,we knw our way.maintainance ma foot,na here we go sidan c d outcome.shake ma head 4 9ja.

But the report said its due to NGC's inability to deliver gas to d stations because shell (NGC's main supplier ) will b carrying out routine maintenance on her equipment. And I think d mentioned stations r d one connected to d affected part of d shell facility.

I don't see how its PHCN's or Jonathan/Government fault.

Igosun:



      omg who cares we all have our gens.

Lol.

One thing that is clearly evident is that, at last, the PHCN management seems to be awake. I noticed significant improvement in the number of hours of power supply when I was in Ilorin last week and when I returned to the north, the improvement was also there. Considering the fact that nobody in the past (including PHCN management) used to know which plant will work or not work in the near future, this notice before hand shows that they are not sleeping. It will at least give us enough chance to fuel our gens to survive the dark days ahead.

Developing It is glaring how bleak NIGERIA'S FUTURE is wt opinions like these. A whole country is @ d mercy of a foreign company that is taking style 2 protest its reservation on P.I.B bill. Shutting gas down, selling oil blocs wt no respect to govt & relocation threat to operate in GHANA. We r blindfolded wt religious & tribal sentiments

SHELL is doing a maintenance then NGC who is doing nothing says they cannot supply gas to NEPA who utilize the gas. What really is the point of NGC who are just middlemen doing nothing? NEPA should have ensured that the power station has 2 suppliers of gas which can be either SHELL or CHEVRON but you know how Nigeria things are.

abeg make ee no pass 7 days. Pls, which states are likely to be affected most?

Fresh Air.

Igosun:



omg who cares we all have our gens.

Your gen is about to be useless come Jan 2012 (1 liter goes for N145)

everyone is quick to jump at the throat of the managers of PHCN  and FG,while most posters here cant even comprehend simple grammar and make sense from it,most of us here failed to realize that  the shut down is as a result of NGC doing routine maintenance,something we lack those years hence we have decaying infrastructures

llbhuds:

this is not a new thing anymore,  i did my youth service then at PHCN power station in sapele (ogorode). there were 10 steam powered turbines that were functional when this power station was commissioned then in the 70s by obasanjo. as at 2006 when i did my NYSC, it was only 3 out of the 10 that is still functioning and 1 of these 3 was about to break down due to lack of maintenance. and i was told by the coppers that were still der after my service that the fed. govt had started construction for another 10 turbines to be powered by gas.
in delta state alone, there are 2 power stations and as at 2006 these 2cities (ughelli & sapele) still dont get 24hrs constant electricity supply so shutting these stations down will be of no impact to these cities

they have finished  and completed the new  power plant as part of the NIPP  and also there is now a step down in the town, it has improved loads from b4

Kudos to PHCN. . . . At least power supply was good in the last few weeks.

anybody that says he has not noticed a significant improvement in power supply recently on this forum should be counted among the enemies of development nigeria has suffered in their hands in the past.here in orile ,lagos i dont complain much about light anymore knowing how it used to be.the day our saviour is going to take over the mantle of leadership in this country,many of nigerians wont even know instead they will continue calling for his throat. thumb up PROF. BARTH NNAJI

^^^ No power improvement in the uniport area b4 now, students even demonstrated.

Er, PHCN, ever heard of backup? Plan B?

dats rubbish