The amount of electricity generated by the nation’s 27 power stations fell below 3,000 megawatts on Sunday as low load demand by distribution companies continued to limit generation.

Akelicious reported earlier this month that 17 of the stations had been forced to shut down some of their units on the back of low demand by the Discos, worsening the blackout being experienced by millions of customers across the country.

Total power generation in the country dropped to 2,970MW as of 6am on Sunday from 3,182.2MW on Saturday, data obtained by our correspondent from the Nigeria Electricity System Operator showed.

The output of the power stations dropped to 3,074.6MW on Friday from 3,290.9MW on Thursday.

A report from the system operator showed that a total of 2,159.7MW generation capacity was idle on Thursday as a result of low load demand by Discos while 112.5MW was unutilised because of line constraints.

Eight power plants, including four built under the National Integrated Power Project, did not generate any megawatt of electricity as of 6am on Thursday.

The affected plants are Afam IV & V, Omotosho I, Alaoji NIPP, Olorunsogo NIPP, Omotosho NIPP, Gbarain NIPP, AES IPP and ASCO IPP.

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 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 Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on August 15, lamented the inability of the Discos to distribute available grid power to consumers, describing the distribution capacity in the 11 Discos as significantly low.

“Despite the availability of about 8,000MW of generation and about 7,000MW of transmission capacity, lack of Disco infrastructure to absorb and deliver grid power to end users has largely restricted generation to an average of about 4,000MW,” he said.

https://punchng.com/power-generation-falls-to-2970mw-on-discos-demand/amp/

Super clueless & unserious administration.

Please listen to the WHITE LIES from a real professional liar & ‘senior Lucifer’, who the Bible called Father of all liars.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqe9AGrmmsk

Interesting

When are we going to stop with all these negative news. I pray our government gets their act together.

I pity the next generation of this country

Una go suffer ehn

Then what is the solution the story above? What do you want consumers to do?

adrian3000:
I pity the next generation of this country

Una go suffer ehn

My brother if u see way, flee from 9ja !

Politicians wey dey send their pikin abroad sabi why

adrian3000:
I pity the next generation of this country

Una go suffer ehn

The next generation are already suffering... most especially the morons who voted the dullardino.


4 Years of CHANGE- FAILED

4 Years of NEXT LEVEL - ? “IF no changes in the manner of governance, accountability & transparency, IT WILL ALSO FAIL.

Meaning: Buhari 8 years wasted.

Posterity will judge all those who brought the super clueless element to power.

Why won't they reject power from GENCOs when they are given free reign to use estimated billing. Let them all be forced to roll out pre-paid meters or be forced to close.

With the current arrangement of estimated billing, these DISCOs can choose to reject power from GENCOs because with or without power supply they will come with their regular monthly bill.

There are legislation already in place to compel the DISCOs to stop estimated billing but for 4yrs Fashole refused to enforce it on the DISCOs but rather sided with them to increase tarrif rates for no just reason.

Also power supply is heavily politicised as there is an unwritten order to supply both the NW and SW much of the power generated so as to appear that power supply has improved leaving the rest of the country in darkness.

Even at that, most of the power supply to the north is virtually free especially in rural areas.

The subsidy the north enjoys can even be seen from the billing rates for each zone with the SS and SE recording the highest rates while the SW and NW, the lowest even though most of the GENCOs are located in the SS and SE.

Less than 3000 megawatts for a whole nation of over 180m persons.

The liars will find their place in HELL


Mr Osunbade the professional liar, where is our 8,100 MGW?

Lobatan

Discos ehn

Politicians don't want power to work, that's why it is not working.

Afamed wee blame ipob and kanu
Apcheat sef
Cc immhotep sarrki gwarotango Adaibeku Afonjaconehead greenback GMBuharii

And somewhere in Russia.....

https://www.nairaland.com/5380480/russia-worlds-only-floating-nuclear

With all the resources and prospect to generate power, all we see power outage hampering our economic and social lives.

When will Nigeria start competing on good things??

Every time this same rubbish keeps happening

Same old story...

Its not politician, its actually the systems we have that is accommodating this Lacunas

ReubenE:
Politicians don't want power to work, that's why it is not working.

See now those people in magodo overhyping Phcn for no reason bla bla bla simi and her crew that’s when they remember u and mess up

AkeNathan:
God abeg help me make one fine oyibo marry me make my children get American or European citizenship.

As the saying goes, be careful what u wish for

APCHaram:
Why won't they reject power from GENCOs when they are given free reign to use estimated billing. Let them all be forced to roll out pre-paid meters or be forced to close.

With the current arrangement of estimated billing, these DISCOs can choose to reject power from GENCOs because with or without power supply they will come with their regular monthly bill.

There are legislation already in place to compel the DISCOs to stop estimated billing but for 4yrs Fashole refused to enforce it on the DISCOs but rather sided with them to increase tarrif rates for no just reason.

Also power supply is heavily politicised as there is an unwritten order to supply both the NW and SW much of the power generated so as to appear that power supply has improved leaving the rest of the country in darkness.

Even at that, most of the power supply to the north is virtually free especially in rural areas.

The subsidy the north enjoys can even be seen from the billing rates for each zone with the SS and SE recording the highest rates while the SW and NW, the lowest even though most of the GENCOs are located in the SS and SE.

Every analysis you guys make must be tainted with tribal sentiments.

Commentor:


Every analysis you guys make must be tainted with tribal sentiments.

You better believe in tribal politics because you are living in one big tribalistic village Hut

It's Only in Nigeria that electricity seems like a Rocket science...
We should keep on decieving ourselves..One thing I know that is definite in my heart is that "Naija don cast" No hope again!

fistonati:
Its not politician, its actually the systems we have that is accommodating this Lacunas

The system you mentioned is managed by these very greedy people.

Most if not all the Discos are owned by Politicians through proxies, that's why things are not working

APCHaram:


You better believe in tribal politics because you are living in one big tribalistic village Hut

No, you are living in one.

You cannot escape the environment you create.

crownwealth:



The next generation are already suffering... most especially the morons who voted the dullardino.


4 Years of CHANGE- FAILED

4 Years of NEXT LEVEL - ? “IF no changes in the manner of governance, accountability & transparency, IT WILL ALSO FAIL.

Meaning: Buhari 8 years wasted.

Posterity will judge all those who brought the super clueless element to power.

Per your Fashola poster, ok I’m no Maths genius and I may be wrong, but I’m not sure 1963 to 2019 is 52 years?

Ok

ReubenE:


The system you mentioned is managed by these very greedy people.

Most if not all the Discos are owned by Politicians through proxies, that's why things are not working

Politicians or not, if the DISCOs had been compelled to go by existing regulation of rolling out prepaid meters, they would be bidding against each other to buy power from GENCOs which will see GENCOs having money to maintain and expand their capacity.

This will never work because if estimated billing was discarded I can assure you that northern DISCOs will go bankrupt because majority of their customers will not be able to afford to pay for power.

The subsidy the north enjoys at the expense of the SS/SE is just too much!

From power, fuel (yes fuel because pump price are fixed to accommodate transporting fuel to the extreme northern fringes) , agriculture, job opportunities, you name it, the north is being subsidised fully by the south.

CanadaOrBust:


As the saying goes, be careful what u for

What do you mean?
Who wouldn't love a gate-way out of this shit hole country?

Your best talents are leaving, even your politicians and celebrities.

Commentor:


No, you are living in one.

You cannot escape the environment you create.

Go and sing kumbaya with BH in sambisa forest.

You will be there preaching unity in the midst of the ongoing full scale tribal warfare