Inadequate supply of gas to the power station and explosions at transmission lines in the Lagos area and Jebba have resulted in a drop in electricity generation to 2,665MW, THISDAY has learnt.
THISDAY gathered that with this development, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has directed the 11 distribution companies (Discos) nationwide “not to pick loads to avoid a system collapse”.
Data obtained from a source at TCN on the “Daily Load Analysis and Day Ahead Consumption” for yesterday showed that between 1 am and 6 am on Saturday, generation fell to 2,500MW.
However, between 6 am and 11.59 pm, the hourly dispatch to the Discos rose to 2,721.20MW, thus averaging 2,665.90MW for the whole day.
The chief executive of one of the Discos, who did not want to be named, told THISDAY yesterday that with the abysmally low level of generation, TCN directed the Discos not to pick loads to forestall a system collapse.
“When generation is very low like this, TCN tries to stabilise it and the only way to stabilise it is to balance the load. Right now, we can’t pick any load, otherwise there will be a system collapse,” he said.
TCN had at the beginning of this month announced for the first time that the country generated about 5,074.7MW of electricity.
The attainment of the new record peak generation as well as the highest maximum daily energy of 109,372 megawatts hour (MWH) was recorded on February 2, 2016.
Before this, the previous peak generation was put at 4,883.9MW attained on November 23, 2015, and the previous highest maximum daily energy wheeled out nationwide was 107,142.32MWH recorded on January 26, 2016.
It was however gathered that supply, which later averaged above 4,600MW, has deteriorated in recent weeks due to transmission and gas supply issues.
At the recent second sectoral meeting held in Lagos between the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, and all the operators in the power and gas sectors, TCN had identified 51 transmission issues for resolution in areas like Alaoji, Sokoto, Ahoada, Damaturu, Gbarain, Calabar, Afikpo, Nsukka, Okigwe, Ihiala, Ayede, Ikeja, Ajah, Lekki, Kebbi, Jos, Kaduna, Kano, Makurdi, Kainji, Kafanchan, Otukpo, Hadejia, Wudil, Kumbotso, Bauchi, Gombe, Katsina, Daura, Abuja and Maiduguri.
A source at the National Control Centre (NCC) in Osogbo, Osun State, who spoke to THISDAY yesterday on the condition of anonymity, blamed the poor supply situation on inadequate gas supply to the generation companies and explosions that occurred on the transmission lines in the Lagos and Jebba areas.
He further disclosed that while over 1,500MW was lost in the last three weeks to inadequate gas supply, over 150MW was lost to the collapse of the transmission infrastructure.
“I can confirm to you that power has dropped due to gas constraints and explosions in Lagos and Jebba. One of the transmission towers in Lagos is down and another one is down in Jebba but TCN is working on them,” he said.
The Head of Corporate Communications at Eko Electricity Distribution Company, Mr. Godwin Idemudia, also confirmed at the weekend that “the current power rationing and intermittent outages being experienced in areas under the company’s coverage in the last few weeks was partly due to inadequate bulk electricity load allocation to the company from the national grid”.
According to him, power instability arose from a drop in national generation as a result of the incessant acts of vandalism on gas pipelines and transmission towers.
Idemudia added that the situation was not limited to Eko Disco’s coverage areas alone, adding that since the problem had to do with low generation, all parts of the country were affected.
Idemudia said the situation has led to acute power rationing in all areas within the company’s operational territory, stressing that the areas worst hit include Surulere, Lekki, Ajah, Ibeju, Mushin, Apapa, Yaba and their environs.
“Eko Electricity Distribution Company appeals to all its customers to please bear with the situation, as the company is doing all within its power to ensure fair and equitable distribution of available power to all customers pending improvement in power generation,” Idemudia added.
THISDAY gathered that Eko Disco, which normally gets between 350MW and 400MW daily, got a little over 200MW daily from the grid at the weekend.
Under the terms of the privatisation agreement between the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) and private operators who took over the power assets, electricity generated from national grid is supposed to be shared among the 11 Discos at agreed ratios.
While Eko is allocated 11 per cent, Ikeja gets 15 per cent, Ibadan, 13 per cent; Kano, eight per cent, Abuja 11.5 per cent, Port Harcourt, 6.5 per cent, Enugu, nine per cent, Benin, nine per cent, Kaduna, eight per cent, Jos, 5.5 per cent, and Yola 3.5 per cent.
With the significant drop in supply, some of the Discos now concentrate on channelling supply to mainly high demand (HD) commercial customers whose tariffs are very high.


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we were promised change but we were not promised smooth road........gradually we will get there
God bless Nigeria

ok.

The government should invest more on dams.
-It is more reliable and more stable.
-It is less prone to vandalism.
Gas supply has always been an issue in Nigeria year in year out due to vandalism, it is about time we think outside the box and do things differently.

everything is dropping under this buhari led govt. this was what was constantly happening under the past administration but APC continued raising unnecessary alarm, now its happening under their watch.

And Fashola wants to increase tariff while the power generation is on a decline.

This is was happens when a certified dullard presides over the affairs of a nation. Gluttonous Fashola was only interested in tariff hike!

Body odor has been handicapped all these while. But just wait, raining season is coming and water level will rise and naturally power supply will improve a little then zombies shall arise to tell us how magical Buhari's body odor has been the cause of the improvement. Onye ije has nothing to offer.

BRING BACK OUR CORRUPTION!!!
With Corruption a bag of pure water was N80
Without Corruption a bag of pure water is N150
With Corruption dollar was N180
Without Corruption dollar is N400
With Corruption I have 20hrs electricity at low tariff0
Without Corruption I have 7hrs
electricity with 45% increase in tariff
With Corruption keke to my house takes N50
Without Corruption keke to my house takes N100
with corruption smallest indomie was N30
Without Corruption smallest indomie is N50
with Corruption bag of rice N8,500
without Corruption N14,000
The list can go on and on but I just have to end it and take a stand……
# IStandWithCorruption
# Bringbackourcorruption .
# BuharibringbackNigeria .
# Bringbacknaira.
If with Corruption Dollar was N180 and without Corruption Dollar is now N425,
Brother and Sisters, you will agree with me that we need corruption in this country…
Titus Sardine started with 4 fishes, it reduced to 3. Then now it’s 2.
In years to come, you’ll open Sardine and see “Try Again” No fish at this Time…….

buari dullard's body odor work of darkness.

I blame GEJ

I give up...................
Apc have killed the country
No fuel for generator
No light
No food
No jobs
No nothing
Buhari is not to blame
Blame the zombies of sw

When sabotage occursin the west-Lagos or North-Jebba,it is termed explosions, when it does occur in the south south they attribute it to militants- typical case of giving a dog a bad name so as to hang it.

The same way revenue shortfalls in NNPC are now called losses, previously they were called stolen funds.

Hypocrisy of the APC propaganda machinery.

In other news It has unarguably been proved that in the hierarchy of sins:

#INCOMPETENCE IS A GRAVER SIN THAN CORRUPTION#

Excuses Everywhere,!

Tpave:
And Fashola wants to increase tariff while the power generation is on a decline.

Fashola now minister of Darkness

Change!

Nsogbu di

tragic, tragic!!!

Na wa... one step forward, 2 steps backwards. But God dey, Nigeria must conquer. Enough of all these same old stories of poor gas supply. This is the time to start building a coal power plant in the enugu axis and the 3000mw mambilla hydro dam. Enough of this sole reliance on gas plants.

Change being sabotage by criminals who do not want any progress for the country, but Buhari will lock their evil faces in jail. They privitaise NEPA just to make money for themselves, we are yet to see any measurable impact from this disco of darkness

Pavarottii:
Change!

Hiss

Another useless government.

Body odour dead and buried..


People when nor fit give us fuel na wan bring light

This is bad

Are we not suffering all these together

Ngeneukwenu
omenka
passingshot
mynd44
Obiagelli
Beremx

were you all exempted from this suffering

May you suffer more change

K

May it not be well with those who sold this fraudulent ' CHANGE CHAIN' to Nigerians.

I am not a professional in the energy field but why must we continue with old ways that had been proven to be ineffective. sometimes I wonder whether this country is cursed, we have been doing this national grid stuff for many years and it is proven to be ineffective and we still insist it must work.

Why don't we unbundle the power stuff into six regions, the south south has the gas(we use the gas turbines to power electricity there) south east(Enugu) has coal, (get coal fired turbines to power electricity for the eastners {after all China and south Africa still use coal to power a large percent of their energy needs}. The north here has sun and dams (e.g Niger state with kainji, jebba, shiroro dams) use it to power the energy needs in the north. etc.

Why would we spend resources pulling energy to one national hub and still spend resources to distribute this energy and no doubt energy is been lost during the process.

People brought in APC to bring about change with the way things have been going before. the large carmotose of the national infrastructure can not be blamed on them but the truth is that it is always easy to criticize when you are not in the helm of affairs (e.g the silly sunday oliseh was so vocal during his time as a TV pundit, criticizing the then coach and the national team, Buh when he came on board he failed miserably)

Talk is cheap, I expect APC to change the political structure of this country, that is the only way we can develop, when regions compete effectively using the available resources within their regions and not depending on the entitlements from the centre, then we can grow. A million Buharis can't make Nigeria better without making the state/regions viable.

What are the advantages of unbundling Power are:

we spend less on constructing gas pipes from south to north (thereby saving foreign exchange Lol), that been said , less sabotage less maintenance.

People in the region would hold people around them accountable for the energy problems they have. people would tend to protect power facilities in their area cos they know that if it is vandalised they suffer it.

Common sense ain't common

Ndi Ara!!!

I doubt if the supply is even up to 500MW, I am connected to an industrial line, no light since yesterday, no fuel to power generator, the heat is crazy, country la Bad.

But Fashola told the nation prior the elections that achieving steady power supply is not rocket science.

Nigerians truly deserve their leaders.

Mrfahaz:
we were promised change but we were not promised smooth road........gradually we will get there
God bless Nigeria

Wisdom

Someone should plz stop buhari from using deodorant oooo, we like his body odor that does wonders....

This started not yesterday and when Elitist Fashola came, his only remedy was to put more burden of price increment on already over-stressed citizens ...
Nigeria is the only country where the poor/citizens suffer and pay for government incompetency and irresponsibility. where the government leaves you to be a government to yourself by providing all you need by yourself -security,power,transportation etc,when they provide,it's not functional, yet they'd extort the citizens with it and your struggle and hustle are heavily taxed whereas they didn't help you succeed ...
What a useless and inconsiderate government we've been having