Nigeria’s power generation collapsed completely on Thursday at exactly 12.58pm to zero megawatt and this persisted for about three hours.
Data from the country’s System Operator showed that around 1pm on Thursday, no power generation company in Nigeria produced a single megawatt of electricity.
Industry operators revealed that as a result of the complete collapse, no electricity distribution company received load allocation beginning from when the collapse was recorded up till around 3pm.
The System Operator stated that the 11 distribution companies got zero electricity load allocation during the period of the collapse, meaning that for about three hours on Thursday no part of Nigeria got power supply from the national grid.
NE however gathered that supply of electricity was restored around 3pm.
For instance, out of the 450MW that was due Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, the Disco only got about 50MW when the situation began to improve.
Before the collapse, AEDC got an allocation of 257.97MW and the nationwide generation level stood at 2,243.2MW.
Sources in the sector blamed the complete collapse in power generation on the extent of destruction of infrastructure and gas pipelines vandalism that had happened in the industry over the past years, as well as the poor upgrade of power installations across the country.
“The power crisis being experienced nationwide since Tuesday this week has worsened on Thursday with a total system collapse at exactly 12.58pm this afternoon. At that point, the nation went to ground zero, with all the Discos receiving zero MW allocation from the System Operator,” an operator in the sector told newsmen.
Officials from the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing as well as private investors, had attributed the never-ending fall in electricity generation to vandalism of gas pipelines and destruction of vital infrastructure in the industry by miscreants.
“Aside pipelines vandalism, some miscreants have been involved in the destruction of vital power infrastructure and this has been affecting not just generation but transmission and distribution as well,” a senior official at the power ministry who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to speak on the matter, had said.
The official also stressed that the ongoing difficulty in the downstream oil industry was also impacting negatively on the power sector.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, reassured Nigerians that the 10,000 megawatts of electricity generation target set by the administration would be attained by the end of 2019. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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And Nigeria would still be charged for that period.
ReplyDeleteThis is the proof that some Nigerians do not want anything good to happen in Nigeria. The people vandalising our pipeline are Nigerians.
ReplyDeleteWho do we now blame?
This is junk journalism, not ALL power generated in Nigeria passes through the National Grid. Those were not shut down.
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ReplyDeleteWhen the previous administration complained about their struggle with gas pipeline vandals causing poor gas supply, we all turned deaf screaming "change". We now have "change" and things are much worse. These "new" guys obviously have no clue on how to tackle the issue as evidenced by this never-before-seen rock-bottom power generation supported by unprecedented fuel shortages. This is not economic failure that can be craftily blamed on others. This is "May 15 > 6000", "a year later = 0" due to negligence, poor focus and incompetence. Please enough politicking/traveling. Old nomad, please focus and seek for advice from the people that battled this issue before. Change indeed.
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ReplyDeleteAPC complete failure is as a result of their hatred for PDP 16yrs of hard labour and negligence for all programmes implemented by PDP administration.
ReplyDeleteLet's be sincere for once; if a house is built for say 5yrs and out of hatred another destroys it, how long will it take to build it again.
It's April fool from Nigeria eye joor
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