’Femi Asu

The nation’s electricity woes have worsened as generation from its biggest power station, Egbin, plunged to a record low of 172 megawatts on Tuesday, down from 1,085MW on March 15.

Eight of the nation’s 26 power plants were idle on Tuesday, according to industry data obtained by our correspondent.

Generation from Egbin, which is located in Lagos, with an installed capacity of 1,320MW, was said to have been limited to 172MW largely due to gas supply shortages.



Its units ST3, 4 and 5 were out due to gas constraints; ST1 was said to have tripped on generator CB trouble, and ST2 was not on spinning reserve due to a management decision.

The nation recorded a total system collapse on Thursday, November 24, the second time this month and the 20th time this year, the data showed.

The total national power generation fell to 3,224MW on Tuesday, down from 3,574.2MW on Monday.

Eight of the nation’s power generating plants, including Olorunsogo II in Ogun State and Ibom Power in Cross River, were completely idle on Tuesday.

Other plants, which did not generate any megawatts of electricity as of Tuesday, were Afam IV & V, Rivers IPP, Trans-Amadi, AES, ASCO and Gbarain.

Olorunsogo’s units GT1, 2, 3, 4 and ST2 were said to be out due to gas constraints, while ST1 was out on maintenance.

The GT1 unit of Ibom Power was out on guide vane problem, while GT2 and 3 were out due to maintenance of the gas station for 45 days since October 21.

Twelve units of Afam IV & V were said to have been de-commissioned and scrapped; units GT13, 14, 15 and 16 were out on blade failure; GT17 and 18 were out due to burnt generator transformer, while GT19 and 20 were awaiting major overhaul.

River IPP’s unit GT1 was reportedly out due to gas constraints, while Trans-Amadi’s GT1, 2 and 4 were out due to gas constraints and GT3 out on fault.

The AES was said to be out of production; ASCO’s GT1 was shut down due to leakage in the furnace, and Gbarain’s GT2 was out due to gas constraints.

http://punchng.com/power-generation-egbin-drops-84-172mw/

Gas shortage, repairs, shutdown,maintanance



How come they all happened at the same time.
Na the same time all of them dey get fault ?

Na wah o!

No Positive News Under this Gestapo Government


#Atiku2019

Na Fasola I go blame nau. I talk am say after that yarn about Sango cant deliver 1kw of power, the deity fit vex.
See now as power don drop 84%. Eehn, wetin we go do now?

BuhaRi is busy hobnobbung with the wrong set of individuals from the Niger delta while the militants are hard at work blowing up pipeline Installations.

The rains are no longer here. So power installations are working at low capacity.

With the exception of barth nnaji, fashola is just like every other power minister.... Clueless, powerless, ignorant, ....Just name it!

Hmmm everything inflation but power generation suffering deflation

Oga fash, which level now

Foolish Fashola, shooting off with his stinky mouth that power issue is no rocket science. He thought running a federal project is like the stupid 12mw plant he built on Lagos Island. Him eye go done dey clear now. Bastards in govt. As for that Buhary, i now know Idiagbon was the poster man of his earlier administration.

By the time buhari finish with us, our neck go long pass rope



onatisi come give us prophesy for the new month we wan enter


haaaahahaaaa


@that man below me, that same thunder way no fire you when BH they kill innocent people while you guys were busy blaming jonathan....

una never see anything, them never implement data laws egift , antiwailers them don loss...... RIP to ur moniker in advance

Thunder fire the maggots that would complain of the looming blackout or insult Fashola or Buhari but go about celebrating the blowing up of gas pipelines.

I already sight some one of them here.

GudluckIBB:
Gas shortage, repairs, shutdown,maintanance



How come they all happened at the same time.
Na the same time all of them dey get fault ?

Na wah o!

When there is insufficient gas supply and some turbines shutdown, the load demand becomes too much for the remaining functioning turbines and it eventually forces them all to shutdown.

obailala:
Thunder fire the maggots that would complain of the looming blackout or insult Fashola or Buhari but go about celebrating the blowing up of gas pipelines.

I already sight some one of them here.

Thunder go still fire everybody wey carry this trouble maker president and talkative minister of darkness give us...

Nigeria is a mess..

Meanwhile Fashola is waiting on Sango to provide lightning for MW

In my area nw we only hv light jst for 2hours per day

Izonpikin:


Thunder go still fire everybody wey carry this trouble maker president and talkative minister of darkness give us...

Nigeria is a mess..

The president dey him own for abuja dey flex, una dey where una dey dey do jaguda upandan like market woman wen nor see customer reach night Now you don come here dey talk say president abi na fash dey find trouble, abi the trouble wey dem find na to win election?.... una use this very jaguda dey starve hundreds of millions of people (including una own relations) and una dey think say na buhari wey dey flex for abuja una dey punish?

Every move by Apc to cripple this country was a hit

prepare for the worst come 2017 from all angles, food, power, security etc. Thats my advice cos dis government dont give a f*ck

When a lawyer heads the power ministry, a lawyer heads Communication Technology ministry...what shall we expect?

Tariff increment!

Just like we have too much data for Internet access, we have too much MW of power to light up our appliances.

This adminstration is a mirage!

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From another angle, Root Cause Analysis:

What's their claim about the drop? Gas supply.

Why is that? Militants

Why are they blowing up pipelines and oil installations? 5%

What is the government doing? Operation Crocodile Smile and Operation Python Dance.


You dont want to negotiate with militants in the South, but you're negotiating with terrorists in the North. What a joke!

If Fashola is committed to the success of his efforts, he would have been bugging Buhari on ND issue.

Instead of Fashola to try and improve power he was busy giving useless lectures that add no nothing to power supply

Nigeria my country.

No wonder I called my people in Lagos, while I am still in akwa ibom at present, to ask them of the situation of light, they said for like 4days no light, despite the fact that our family house I close to the state house.


Hmmm oga gan Ni ooo

No light, no data , no food

By the time buhari is done with Nigerians, this is how Nigeria will look like in 2019

I am not suprised because Buhari and failure Na like 5 and 6

And what is the Minister of Darkness talking about this

Thunder fire APC and their zombie

Our minister of power is waiting for Sango

Power belongs to God

Body language no dey give una light again?

Dem never chee chomchin make una wait make we enter heat season na den una eye go clear.

check out this hillarious chats between these two people:will make you laugh out your rib

http://nubreednews..com.ng/2016/11/check-out-this-hillarious-chats-between.html

obailala:
The president dey him own for abuja dey flex, una dey where una dey dey do jaguda upandan like market woman wen nor see customer reach night Now you don come here dey talk say president abi na fash dey find trouble, abi the trouble wey dem find na to win election?.... una use this very jaguda dey starve hundreds of millions of people (including una own relations) and una dey think say na buhari wey dey flex for abuja una dey punish?

Oboy na everybody dey suffer this thing ooo

Is that why I've had just 5mins electricity in the past 48hrs? I just hate this government and everyone in it!