Power generation in Nigeria dropped to 3,390.7mw on Monday as seven plants, including three built under the National Integrated Power Project, are idle.
The report by Nigeria’s Punch newspaper on Tuesday noted that electricity generation has been hovering around 2,600mw and 3,800mw as of 6.00 am every day since the start of this month.
The report said that power generation plunged to 2,692.7mw on June 7.
According to the report, seven power plants, namely Afam IV&V, Alaoji NIPP, Olorunsogo NIPP, Gbarain NIPP, Okpai IPP, AES IPP and ASCO IPP, did not generate any megawatts of electricity as of 6.00 am on Monday.
Total generation fell slightly to 3,429mw as of 6.00 am on Sunday from 3,461.7mw on Saturday, data from the Nigeria Electricity System Operator, an arm of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, showed.
The amount of electricity produced by the nation’s 27 power plants stood at 3,898.9mw as of 6.00 am on Friday, the highest level achieved so far this month at that time of the day.
The plants generated 4,050mw as of 6.00 am on May 30, but their total output dropped to 3,161.6mw on June 1, according to the data.
The system operator put the nation’s installed generation capacity at 12,910.40mw; available capacity at 7,652.60mw; transmission wheeling capacity at 8,100mw; and the peak generation ever attained at 5,375mw.
Nigeria generates most of its electricity from gas-fired power plants, while output from hydropower plants makes up about 30 percent of the total.
Last month, the power grid experienced what the Managing Director of TCN, Mr. Usman Mohammed, described as the worst system instability since he assumed office.
The data from the system operator showed that power generation plunged to zero megawatt as of 6.00 am on May 9 and 10.
The TCN, which manages the national grid, is still fully owned and operated by the government.
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