Friday, April 1, 2016
Power generation crumbles to
0MW for several 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 told our
correspondent 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 SO 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.
Our correspondent, 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 weekhas
worsened on Thursday with a total
system collapse at exactly12.58pmthis
afternoon. At that point, the nation went
to ground zero, withall the Discos
receiving zero MW allocation from the
System Operator,” an operator in the
sector told our correspondent in
confidence.
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.

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Ayam here to read peoples comments.

What a shame.

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Buhari is the worst administrator Nigeria has ever had

E.O. Eke,another wailing flat.head, I hope igbos will not kill themselves becos of Buhari before 2023!

Let them kill them self because pmb have come to stay till 2023

Philistine:
E.O. Eke,another wailing flat.head, I hope igbos will not kill themselves becos of Buhari before 2023!

it really surprise me that some people still defend this man after reading this

Relax!!More record breaking coming soon.
#Change baba

Every night we go to bed, we have no assurance to get up alive the next morning but still we have plans for the coming day. happy Sunday friends

Buhari and his party APC are bunch of clueless fools who don't know nothing about leadership or governance, all the do is promise upon promise even when they don't know how to go about actualizing their bugous promises. they should shut up and work or step aside for those that are ready for governance. but its sad that no matter how incompetent that this administration is the blinded foolish zombies will not see it or may be the see and feel it but too silly to admit their mistake and miscalculation.