The total amount of electricity generated in Nigeria as at 6am on Saturday was 2,628.6 megawatts.
This indicates a sharp drop from the
little above 4,000MW, which the Federal Government had recently
announced as the country’s generated power.
The drop in generated electricity,
according to the Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, is as a result
of severe leaks in the supply of gas to some strategic power plants
across the country.
Nebo, according to a statement on
Saturday, which was signed by his Special Assistant on Media and
Communication, Ms. Kande Daniel, described the development as worrisome.
The minister, in the statement said,
“Total grid generation as at 6am on Saturday is 2,628.6MW,” adding,
“With this low level generation, management of the grid is currently a
big task, necessitating a nationwide load shedding.”
While explaining the current grid
generation situation, Nebo attributed the drop to the low gas supply to
the generation plants especially in eastern Nigeria.
He said three power stations in the
region: Afam IV, Afam VI, and Rivers Independent Power Plant, were shut
down again on Friday night, as a result of gas constraints arising from
condensate issue on the Trans National Pipeline.
This, he said, put total generation loss from the stations at 624MW.
He said Olorunsogo power station was also down due to low gas pressure, and as a result, 89MW of power was lost.
The minister went further to state that
low head water elevation was also limiting generation at Kainji and
Jebba hydro stations to one unit each.
Nebo, however, observed that the Federal
Government had moved in to arrest the crisis in the gas sector as this
was affecting power generation in parts of the country negatively.
He stated that the government was
assembling a crack team of experts across the oil industry to
investigate in particular the cause of the severe leaks in the gas
supply channels in the eastern part of the country and determine
measures to ameliorate the situation.
The minister said it was painful that
this was happening when many Nigerians were already rejoicing and
celebrating over the stabilisation of power nationally.
He noted that as soon as the cause of the leakage was established, measures would be taken to fix the problem.
Nebo solicited for understanding and urged Nigerians to be patient, stressing that the situation was being tackled.
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its story telling all the way. Thumb up members of Federal Executive Council.
ReplyDeleteRejoicing nonsense!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhere I live in Port Harcourt, for more than a month now our light hasn't blink for a minute and you announced unrealistic 4,000 megawatt.
Deceiving who?
It is advisable we handover everything to Oyinbo including our government to be ran by the expatriates because it is evidently clear that our people are not competent to do it but to steal and loot money.
How much has South Africa spent on power? How much has Ghana spent on energy and how much have we spent on power in this country but all have no head or tail but stupid stories on daily basis.
Useless leaders.
the same old story dropping dropping dropping. Hope Niger will not drop one day!
ReplyDeleteHMM NIGERIA, WHEN WILL WE GET ONE THING RIGHT
ReplyDelete? ALWAYS TAKING ONE STEP FORWARD,THREE STEPS BACKWARD AND POSSIBLY THREE STEPS SIDE WAYS.
Last year GEJ told Nigerians in Pakistan that in 2013, we are going to have a steady power. Now instead of improving on the over celebrated 4000MW, instead it has dropped to 2000MW. What a shame! We can never get it right in this fucking country. USELESS LEADERS!
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