despite various problems with gas
- The power generation rose to above 4,000
Mega Watts (MW)
- Also the power company is set to install
some power equipment at the 330kV
Transmission Substation in Ayobo, Lagos
In their daily electricity generation
chart, the Transmission Company of
Nigeria (TCN), said that last week power
generation rose to 4,232.6MW from
3,500MW recorded in the last two
months.
This is partly unexpected because
according to the Nigerian Electricity
Supply Industry (NESI) Statistics, the
power sector lost about N1.2 billion on
March 20, 2017, due to gas constraints.
NESI released the following statement:"The power sector is plagued with
structural issues in all key areas –
generation, gas supply, transmission and
distribution. To name a few of these
challenges, the operational capacity of
the country’s power plants is less than a
third of their installed capacity.
"Chronic vandalism has crippled oil and
gas pipelines, creating gas shortages at
power plants.
"Under-investment in maintenance and
infrastructure has constrained our
transmission grid. Finally, high
collection and commercial losses have
impacted the financial viability of the
privatised distribution companies."
Despite this increase however, many
customers are unhappy with power
supply. Olusola Ayeni the spokesperson
for the company, said: "The current
outage is due to the destruction of our
Abule Tailor 33kv line, Ipaja 11kv line
and Amikanle 11kv line by the heavy
rain last night (March 26).”
"The affected areas include Ikola,
Amikanle, Command Road Ipaja, Olota,
Ekoro Road, Abule Tailor and environs.
Power supply to the affected areas will be
restored shortly as maintenance teams
are already affecting repairs."
In an effort to boost power supply, Seun
Olagunju, TCN’s general manager,
public affairs, said they are set to install
some power equipment at the 330kV
Transmission Substation in Ayobo,
Lagos State.
Olagunju said: "The power transmission
equipment to be installed include
transformers, protective devices,
metering circuits as well as state-of- the-
art control panels, which will facilitate
the wheeling of more reliable power to
the distribution companies and the
people.
"As a result of the volume of connections
to be done, and the need to reduce
attendant customer discomfort, the
installation has been spread to take effect
from 6 March to 3rd April 2017 and only
between 9:00am and 3:00pm daily."
Meanwhile, the minister of power,
works and housing Babatunde Fashola
has received an ultimatum to fix the
epileptic power supply in Nigeria.
A civil society group, Campaign for
Democracy said the minister has 30-
days to improve power supply in
Nigeria, especially in the South-East
region or resign.
The group in a statement by its national
publicity secretary Dede Uzor said
Fashola has failed woefully by being
unable to increase the megawatt from
4,320 where he met it two years ago.
NAIJ.com recently made a video of the
transportation minister Rotimi Amaechi
speaking about his works. Watch the
video below:
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