₦airaland Forum

The nation’s power generation plunged to zero
megawatt six times last month, the highest level
since 2009, industry data obtained by our
correspondent on Friday showed.
Electricity supply to households and businesses
across the country dropped significantly in May as
the national grid recorded six total collapses and
one partial collapse within the period.
The national grid completely collapsed 11 times in
the first five months of the year, as compared to
six and nine times for the whole of 2015 and
2014, respectively.
The latest total system collapse was recorded on
Wednesday, June 1, according to the data.
As of 6am on Friday, eleven power plants,
including the Shiroro Power Station in Niger
State, were not generating any megawatts of
electricity.
Others were Afam IV & V, Geregu I, Omotosho I,
AES, ASCO, Trans-Amadi, Rivers IPP, Gbarain,
Olorunsogo I and II.
The total national power generation stood at
2,604.5MW as of 6am on Friday, down from a
peak of 5,074.7MW on February 2, according to
the Ministry of Power.
The slide in power generation has worsened the
blackout being experienced in many parts of the
country, with several consumers without
electricity for hours in recent weeks.
Generation from Egbin, the nation’s biggest
power station, stood at 181MW, down from
1,085MW on March 15.
Shiroro Power Station in Niger State, Olorunsogo
II in Ogun State, and Rivers and Trans-Amadi
IPPs, both in Rivers State, were idle.
Increasing gas constraints largely occasioned by
recent attacks on pipelines in the Niger Delta had
left about 4,400MW of the nation’s power
generation capacity idle as of Friday.
Other factors limiting electricity generation are
line constraints/load rejection by the distribution
companies and water management/maintenance,
according to industry data.
Gas constraints prevented 3,661.1MW from being
generated, while 355.6MW and 380MW could not
be generated due to line constraints/load
rejection by Discos and water management/
maintenance, respectively.
The nation generates most of its electricity from
gas-fired power plants, while output from hydro-
power plants makes up about 30 per cent of total
generation.
As of April 5, the unutilised generation capacity
was 3,626.1MW, with 3,100.5MW due to gas
constraints; 245.6MW caused by line constraints/
rejection by Discos and 280MW as a result of
water management/maintenance.
The Chairman, Network of Electricity Consumers
Advocacy of Nigeria, Mr. Tomi Akingbogun,
complained that many consumers were being
giving over-estimated bills despite the worsening
state of power supply.
“We hear that most of the problems arise from
the transmission lines because many of them are
weak,” he said, adding that the distribution
companies had failed to provide prepaid meters
to the consumers to ensure that they billed the
people only for what they consumed.
Akinbogun said, “They (power firms) are not
concerned about the total system collapse
because they are making money whether they
supply electricity or not. So, why will they be
interested in making sure that we have
electricity?”
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr.
Babatunde Fashola, at a recent public lecture,
said, “In our road map to incremental power, we
are looking at what we have and what we can get
out of them.
“We have 26 power plants (including the AES
plant), three of the plants are powered by water,
the hydro power plants in Jebba, Kainji and
Shiroro. The remainders are powered by gas.”
He put the total number of turbines, which
should actually generate power from 25 power
plants (excluding AES), at 140 turbines with
installed capacity of 12,341MW.
“At the best of times, only about 78 turbines are
generating power, which gave us our peak of
5,074 MW.
“The problems have been identified as either
damaged, unmaintained or unserviced turbines in
the hydro power plants; and in the cases of gas
plants, it is largely non-availability of gas, coupled
with lack of maintenance,” Fashola said.

The nation’s power generation plunged to
zero
megawatt six times last month, the highest
level
since 2009,

NOETHNICITY:
I am very sure that if not for militant activities Fashola and PMB govt wud ve since succeeded in upping Power supply to at least between 6000 to 7000 MW of electricity! Shame on the saboteurs for taking us all aback because of ur unjustified hate for Buhhari! God bless PMB! God bless Nigeria

NOETHNICITY:
I am very sure that if not for militant activities Fashola and PMB govt wud ve since succeeded in upping Power supply to at least between 6000 to 7000 MW of electricity! Shame on the saboteurs for taking us all aback because of ur unjustified hate for Buhhari! God bless PMB! God bless Nigeria

ganisucks:
The last time this happened was before Jonathan became the acting President, and then President. Facts speak better than Fiction. Jonathan, wherever Y̶̲̥̅̊ø̲̣̣̥ǖ are, on behalf ☀̤̣̈̇f all well meaning, sound minded Nigerians. I say thank Y̶̲̥̅̊ø̲̣̣̥ǖ for Four wonderful years.

ganisucks:
The last time this happened was before Jonathan became the acting President, and then President. Facts speak better than Fiction. Jonathan, wherever Y̶̲̥̅̊ø̲̣̣̥ǖ are, on behalf ☀̤̣̈̇f all well meaning, sound minded Nigerians. I say thank Y̶̲̥̅̊ø̲̣̣̥ǖ for Four wonderful years.

BeastAmbition:
Minister Of Darkness And Power Is Really Working

Ucheosefoh:
You mean this man

greatgod2012:
The man who said generation of power is not rocket science.