Lagos — As part of effort to improve power supply in the country, The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), said it…
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“Presently, the produced energy cannot cover the demand. Main reasons for shortage of generation are outages of generation units and the unavailability of gas for power generation.”
The fire incident caused a national grid failure recorded on January 2nd, 2018. Although the fire incident has been handled and normalcy restored, the country’s generation figures has still not sufficiently risen to the range of what was experienced during December 2017.
Operators of the electricity generation companies lamented that their efforts were being frustrated by the practice of electricity rejection coordinated by the NCC, following persistent refusal of Discos to take up generated power.
According to the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI), operational report for Jan. 3, the power sector hits a peak generation of 4,959 megawatts as against 3,321 megawatts recorded on Dec. 2.
Abdullahi attributed the discrepancy between the load allocation from the National Control Centre and the load taken by the company to system “instability and capacity limitation of Transmission Company of Nigeria’s infrastructures.”
29 February 2016, Lagos – Inadequate supply of gas to the power station and explosions at transmission lines in the Lagos…
