B1ak3:


Heathrow is an airport, not a power generation plant. So how on earth is it generating more power than what Nigeria generates? Olodo trying to shade

Willed042:
Then TNC should be bundled and sold to capable private investors...I for one will promote any thing which is private driven. the record is straight on this all government owned institutions and agency always performed below expectation: formerly NITEL, Federal government owned schools, all Federal owned stadiums, Nigeria Airways, NNPC the list goes on.

YoungFr:
Next level of darkness

I made it again FTC, yesterday was my marriage and this FTC is dedicated to me and my wife. Check my page later for pics

helinues:


Go outside your comforts zone, you no go gree..

May be you quoted for quoting sake

otiwisdom:
Is Nigeria cursed

theoldpretender:


They can't source funding because

1.Laws force them to sell power below production costs


2.A large percentage of people and govt don't pay bills

3.Which bank would give cash under that circumstances?

bentwood85:
The poor masses shouting APC & PDP upanda will suffer it... Go to places(were politicians reside) like Garki, Asokoro, Maitama and Wuse, Gwarinpa u get 24hrs power supply, but when you come to were the masses live (nyanya, mararaba, suleja, Gwagwalada, Bwari, dutse) they are in perpetual darkness with monthly crazy billing from NEPA..

otiwisdom:
Is Nigeria cursed

YoungFr:
Next level of darkness

I made it again FTC, yesterday was my marriage and this FTC is dedicated to me and my wife. Check my page later for pics

luizkyworld:
Who else noticed that power supply improved a few days to presidential elections, halted after the postponement... Then resumed before the elections...sustained after de incumbent won, to enable us celebrate de victory. Then, immediately after concluding all de elections yesterday, power outage. Gbam!!

Truthbites:
When will this country get past all these? Its disheartening. Countries are progressing, doing electric cars we are still talking of power...
Where is Fashola and his promises before he became Minister of darkness

bilulu:

even the Garki don't always ve light.... I can categorically tell you that this past week Area 3 could not boast of 8hrs power supply each day....

almarthins:


What did we ever do to deserve such inhuman leaders?
Not that this problem has no perpetual solution but their atitude toward power generation is disheartening.

Ikpongiton:
meaning that you abandoned your wife on her wedding night to hit front page .destined to crash

princemillla:


You Don divorce

nwanyionitsha:
Electricity has been so bad. Gen sef don tire.

YoungFr:

Yes I divorced your stupidity

sophsia62:
The national power grid lost 1,770 megawatts in two days as generation fell below the 3,000MW mark on Friday, the latest data obtained by our correspondent on Saturday revealed.

The total available electricity generation fell to 2,938.5MW as of 6am on Friday from 4,708.3MW on Wednesday.


Data from the Nigeria Electricity System Operator, an arm of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, revealed that generation peaked at 4,806.8MW on Thursday.

The system operator put Nigeria’s installed generation capacity at 12,910.40MW; available capacity at 7,652.60MW; transmission wheeling capacity at 8,100MW; and the peak generation ever attained at 5,375MW.

The country generates most of its electricity from gas-fired power plants, while output from hydropower plants makes up about 30 per cent of the total.

The Executive Secretary, Association of Power Generation Companies, the umbrella body for the GenCos, Dr Joy Ogaji, told our correspondent that the limitations of the transmission and distribution networks as well as a lack of payments to Gencos were responsible for the drop in generation.

Government-owned Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading Plc buys electricity in bulk from Gencos through Power Purchase Agreements and sells to the distribution companies, which then supply it to the consumers.

The Federal Government, in March 2017, approved N701bn payment assurance guarantee by the Central Bank of Nigeria to help Gencos meet gas payment obligation starting from January 2017 to December 2018

Ogaji said, “The guarantee has ended. Up till now there is no plan for payment to Gencos, apart from the 26 per cent the Discos are paying. Gas suppliers are not ready to accept 26 per cent payment for the gas they sell to Gencos.”


She said some Gencos had to get loans to pay for gas supply.


She added, “But the transmission network is not available to take all the power generated by Gencos. The TCN claims it can wheel 8,100MW but we know it can sustain 4,500MW.


“The rainy season is approaching, a lot of the networks are very weak. We will see a further drop in generation as the rains start because the transmission and distribution networks are very bad.”

The TCN, which manages the national grid, is still fully owned and operated by the government. The grid collapsed five times in the first two months of the year, according to the company.

https://www.akelicious.net/2019/03/power-generation-drops-from-47083mw-to.html