Unavailability of gas and other infrastructural issues, on Thursday, made seven electricity generating companies (GenCos) not to generate electricity, as their plants were shut down.
Due to this, the nation’s national grid was denied 3,523 megawatts (mw) of power, which is the total operating capacity of the companies.
The statement from the Power Advisory Team, Office of the Vice-President, stated that “despite Federal Government’s efforts to address the nation’s power crisis, as well as mitigate the constant system collapse by the grid, about seven generating plants produced zero megawatts of electricity yesterday.”
It was gathered that insufficient gas supply, inadequate distribution and transmission infrastructure contributed to the loss of 2,173 mw of electricity.
Findings showed that the following National Independent Power Plant, NIPPs, were affected: Sapele Ibom, ASCO, Azura-Edo, Egbin ST2-5, Jebba and Gbarain.
According to the report, “On February 20, 2018, average power sent out was 3,835MWh/hour (down by 134MWh/h from the previous day) “1175MW was not generated due to unavailability of gas. 29MW was not generated due to unavailability of transmission infrastructure, while 969MW was not generated due to high frequency resulting from unavailability of distribution infrastructure
“There was no reported water constraint. The power sector lost an estimated N1.048 billion, on February 20, 2018 due to insufficient gas supply, distribution infrastructure, transmission infrastructure and water reserves. There was rising high frequency constraint due to DISCOs inability to distribute,” the report reads.
