Electricity generation in the country has fallen again below 3,000 megawatts, as the number of idle plants rose to 10 on Monday. Total power generation plunged to 2,866.
1MW as of 6am on Monday from 3,141.8MW on Sunday, latest data obtained from the Nigeria Electricity System Operator on Tuesday showed.
Twenty-one of the nation’s 27 power plants could not generate 3,072.1MW as of 6am on Monday due to low load demand by the Discos and line constraints . The national grid has recorded nine total collapses so far this year – four in January and one each in February, April, May, June and August. 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.
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