Nigeria has been ranked as the
2017 second worst nation in power supply.
This is as power dropped to below
4,000 megawatts in Nigeria.
The Spectator Index of the
world’s worst electricity supply in 2017 stated this in a report released by
@spectatorindex Twitter handle on Monday.
Of the 137 countries examined in
the report, Yemen ranked as worst electricity supply nation in 2017, followed
by Nigeria, Haiti, Lebanon and Malawi.
Ethiopia occupied the 37th
position, while South Africa and Algeria occupied the 41st and 45th positions
respectively.
Meanwhile, the latest report of
the Advisory Power Team (Office of the Vice President) showed that the national
grid capacity stood at 4,000 Megawatts.
The report noted that the average
power sent out by the Electricity Generating Companies on January 14 stood at
3, 851.06mw, down by 168.58mw recorded the previous day, adding that the peak
generation averaged 4,425mw, down by 5.5 percent.
According to the report: “On
January 14 2018, average power sent out was 3,851MWh/hour (down by 169MWh/h
from the previous day). 1437.9MW was not generated due to unavailability of
gas.
“0MW was not generated due to
unavailability of line infrastructure, while 680.5MW was not generated due to
high frequency resulting from the unavailability of distribution
infrastructure. 290MW was not generated due to unavailability of water.
“The power sector lost an
estimated N1,121,000,000 on January 14, 2018, due to insufficient gas supply,
distribution infrastructure, transmission infrastructure and water reserves.”
A total of 63.1mw of energy was
sent out from Omoku thermal power plant with a constraint of 16mw.
Alaoji National Independent Power
Plant had a constraint of 240mw, which affected the ability of the plant to
generate commercial energy.
Energy sent out from Delta Power
Plant on the same day was 340.76mw with a high-frequency constraint of 100
Hertz.
Jebba plant sent out 302.88mw of
energy, while Shiroro had a water constraint of 290mw, along with
high-frequency constraint of 95 Hz, limiting the sent out energy to 160.31mw,
while Kainji dam sent out 359.49mw of power to the Transmission Company of
Nigeria.
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