Nigeria’s Power Grid Drops To 2,662 MW

[caption id="attachment_15860" align="alignnone" width="600"]Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works and Housing[/caption]

Nigeria’s power generation dropped by 1,297 megawatts between January 4 and January 22, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) reports.

This was contained on the website of The Nigerian Electricity System Operator (SO), an agency of TCN, in its daily forecast on power generation data released on Sunday.

The nation had about 3,959 megawatts as at January 4, 2017 but dropped to 2,662 megawatts on Sunday.

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The News Agency of Nigeria reports that TCN attributed the drop to low water levels at the hydro power stations and dearth of gas to the power generating companies.

The company noted that the current output of 2,662 megawatts had been transferred to the 11 distribution companies across the country.

A top official of the company attributed the drop in generation to the attack launched against pipeline facilities belonging to the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) on January 17 around Ughelli in Delta State.

Recall that the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, while speaking at the Nextier Power Dialogue in Abuja last Friday, blamed the country’s poor power output to the activities of militants, who sabotage power assets.

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“Today, at its most frugal, the nation’s power grid would support 6,500MW; pushed to its limit, it would carry 7,200MW.

“So it is not true when you hear that the grid capacity is not more than 5,000MW. It is growing every day and more projects are coming up.

“We have completed some and more are still coming up. So that is where we are,’’ Fashola said.

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