WiszyFraud:
Did you know??

Having friends from other cultures makes you more creative, a study found.

Litmus:


Are you okay?

Jamesrock:
A useless country is removing the Log of wood in another person eyes while their own is still on...

Shame! Shame! Shame!!

GIANTPLUSHUB:
Mheen! So, we even had surplus of electric yet several places are still in darkness Nigeria is a funny country.

The kind of strange things happening in this country is a course to be studied.

GIANTPLUSHUB:
Mheen! So, we even had surplus of electric yet several places are still in darkness Nigeria is a funny country.

The kind of strange things happening in this country is a course to be studied.

adanny01:
The first page is filled with ignorant comments as with 90% of the threads on NL.

Power problems in Nigeria is mostly distribution issues and not generation. Secondly, transmission is the second but far smaller problem.

That means Nigeria can afford to sell unused generated power.

WiszyFraud:
Did you know??

Having friends from other cultures makes you more creative, a study found.

emeraldlife:


Nigeria can and it's very soon.

Jamesrock:


Ask you slowpoke father!

adanny01:
The first page is filled with ignorant comments as with 90% of the threads on NL.

Power problems in Nigeria is mostly distribution issues and not generation. Secondly, transmission is the second but far smaller problem.

That means Nigeria can afford to sell unused generated power.

dochenaj:
And the distribution issues cannot be solved?

It is an NP-complete problem, right? So why should we waste our energy on that, let's just build transmission lines and sell the power.

alenwup:
What a crap! Meanwhile AEDC is receiving less than 300MW to serve Abuja, Kogi, Nassarawa and Niger. This country go soon burst

Jamesrock:
A useless country is removing the Log of wood in another person eyes while their own is still on...

Shame! Shame! Shame!!

Ruthymoon:
do you mean your ancestors are that useless

adanny01:
Have you forgotten that distribution of electricity is in private hands?

Ask anyone who uses 33kV lines for power supply, they get 22-24hrs electricity per day except when there is a system failure in the national grid. The reason is that 33kV, 132kV and 330kV networks are under the TCN while 11kV and 415V are under the DISCOs where you have the serious supply problems.

The problem is lack of adequate power transformers and bad 415V network. Build a house today 500m from the last 415V pole, you will be totally responsible for extending the service to your house. A lot of people will use substandard wires for their own usage but years down the line, that house becomes a community without any upgrade to the wire that was meant for 1 house. That community begins to affect the transformer.

It i well known that DISCOs don't buy power transformers or cables and poles for communities. Everyone is on his own with that regard, as such these things are being over loaded. They end up having to turn off the electricity for the systems to cool off or they simply cannot turn on the electricity for every one at the same time.

In summary, the power is there but the DISCOs cannot use all of it because of inadequate infrastructure at their end.

dochenaj:

Very enlightening and interestingly simple.

So the problem is the DISCOs, and it is common knowledge?

Why can't the government, notably the Ministry of Power do something about it?

If the NCC can sanction private telecommunication companies and NBC, broadcasting companies. Why can't the government set up a commission that looks into all the various power companies and sanction the failing DISCOs and get them to get their act together?

adanny01:
These are private businesses, you can't force them to do more infrastructure. They will welcome anyone who will do it for them. In fact, NIPP did it before they went private. The Nigerian Rural Electrification Agency still do it. Local governments and even state governments do it. Infact, individuals do it. The DISCOs only do it when there is a huge revenue potential.

NERC only regulates them but to a limit. NERC always budge under pressure from the DISCOs. This infrastructure problem is just a tip of the iceberg, the problems are far many.

NBC abi na NCC couldn't force DSTV to implement Pay-per-view, its the same here.

For the fact that we don't produce the electricity equipment, relying on import is another huge problem. We import as little as wires, we also get to import transformers. All these depends on foreign exchange so you can imagine how a transformer that was N1m some years ago is N2m now.

dochenaj:
If NERC is truly committed to their role as a regulatory commission, they should be able to mitigate these problems. It is not entirely hopeless.

You sound very informed about the sector. How is that so?

dochenaj:
This post is so saddening that it is should make any sane Nigerian cry.

In my area in Lagos, I can barely boast of 5 hours of power daily for the past few months but yet we have unutilized power to sell to neighboring countries.

We sell electricity to generate foreign revenue but we don't have electricity to promote industrialization that will revamp our economy in it's entirety.

Is this not madness?