The Electricity Generation Companies (GenCos), including gas-fired and hydro stations in Nigeria, have released an average of 4,426 Megawatts (MW) of electricity into the national grid, a daily energy report has said.
The report, which was compiled by the Advisory Power Team, Office of the Vice-President, said that the peak generation attained on the said date was 5,114mw.
It said that the electricity released by the GenCos was up by 155.98mw hourly from the figure released on Monday.
It said the GenCos also expected to generate 1,547.50mw, but could not due to unavailability of gas, while 909.1mw was not generated due to high frequency resulting from unavailability of distribution infrastructure.
It said that 150mw were recorded as losses due to water management procedures.
The report revealed that the power sector lost an estimated N1.2 billion on Tuesday due to insufficient gas supply, distribution and transmission infrastructure.
On sector reform and activities, it said that the dominant constraint for Tuesday’s generation was unavailability of gas, constraining a total of 1,547.50mw from being available on the grid.
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