PDP has stolen all the megawatts , it's PDP again I tell u

Abeg, make Una no tell us again, we don tire.

Omooba77:
The nation’s power generation dropped by 1,682 megawatts on Monday from 4,129.2MW on Sunday.

Data from the Nigeria Electricity System Operator, an arm of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, showed that generation stood at 2,441MW as of 6.00 am on Monday.

Total power generation rose from zero megawatt as of 6.00 am on Friday to 3,235MW on Saturday, according to the data.


The power grid reportedly collapsed on Wednesday and Thursday last week, worsening electricity supply in many parts of the country.

The Managing Director, TCN, Usman Mohammed, described the system collapse as the worst ever since he took over the leadership of the company.

The system operator put the nation’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 nation 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 TCN, which manages the national grid, is still fully owned and operated by the government.

The grid has continued to suffer system collapse over the years amid a lack of spinning reserve that is meant to forestall such occurrences.

Spinning reserve is the generation capacity that is online but unloaded and that can respond within 10 minutes to compensate for generation or transmission outages.

Out of the five power stations meant to provide spinning reserves, none has any actual reserve, with the contracted reserve put at 295MW.

The power stations are Egbin, Delta, Olorunsogo NIPP, Geregu NIPP and Omotosho NIPP.
The TCN MD said on Friday, “Since I became the MD of TCN, the system instability recorded in the last two days (Wednesday and Thursday) was the worst because there was no time that we had system instability where the restoration took a longer time like this.

And the reason is – we had a high voltage caused by the fact that electricity load was being rejected by the Discos. And the load was not being picked because of weak distribution network. So that is the reason for that instability.”

I'm more interested in the part in bold. The Discos are our major problem.

tactius:


Discos are forced to charge bills below production costs, so they reject power because they cannot afford it.

Nigerians and government agencies not paying for power makes things worse

You always sound like a local champion. Unfortunately, you are not discussing with your village people.
How can you the playing the same gibberish on auto repeat anytime it is mention that "DISCOs are rejecting power."

Are Discos producing power? They knew the ratio before delving into the business, why the sudden lamentation?

If the power is cheaper than their cost, is there anybody pointing a gun at their head? I read sometime last year that they wanted to revoke their licenses but they refused.

Someone says take power and pay a fixed amount, then sell to you customers with this markup. You reject some of the power.

So filling stations too should be justified to sell fuel above the pump price after the government had sold to them at a fixed price and given the fuel dealers a maximum markup they can add. I suggest you should also importune the masses to accept the filling stations sell at market price since the N145 is below production cost, the same way you have been doing for the DISCOs.

Fashola should be arrested and killed as he has said earlier to him self

elyte89:
Since 1984 uptill dis moment,we av been hovering over 4,000+mW to 2000+mw, d question is what's so difficult to build power stations dt will generate light?


Or those who got it to d level of 4k mW back den around 1984, dt we re managing up till now can't come back(if dey re still alive) and assist us to genuinely upgrade dis to 10kMW ,or what,instead of white paper lies increment we read on dailies ,its becoming annoying

.. and one idiot is still borrowing money for budget and sharing the recoverd loots. There is no hope here till 2050.

bentwood85:

what landmark achievement have a Nigerian engineer achieved?.. List one... just one...

Go and check Awojobi for Unilag!

Omooba77:

Go and check Awojobi for Unilag!

lol do you mean there achievements are kept in a museum or laboratory at UNILAG?..

Sai Buhari

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTE1lPxd8-A

Challenges facing Nigeria’s power sector

So, what is loud mouth Fashola doing this past 4 years? I thought he declared that he will fix the power problem in 6 months?

leave d system fes, abeg.
has Nigeria ever had a comprehensive power plan with a feasible timeline?
let's know wot needs doing first.
and only experts in d field can give that information.
that's d actual starting point na.
abi?

Omooba77:


Our Engineers are the best, but our system does not allow the best

wot exactly do we spend money on, without a viable plan?
who waits to get money/investors b4 doing a biz plan?
Haba bros.

tactius:


Where is the money to buy the stuff needed to fix things?

That is the issue

yes, brain drain.
but thank God for technology.
so they can make their input, wherever they r.

NigeriaDecides:
Our Engineers right? You know the meaning of brain drain, that's where our Engineers are.