After collapsing six times in the first eight days of this year, Nigeria’s electricity grid recorded another collapse on the first day of the second month.
Documents obtained from the Nigeria Electricity System Operator, an arm of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, on Sunday in Abuja showed that the national electricity grid crashed from a high of 4,699.9 megawatts on January 31, to 219MW on February 1.
On January 30, The PUNCH exclusively reported that the generation statistics of NESO showed that the country’s power grid collapsed six times in the first eight days of this year.
The collapse was attributed to disruptions to gas production as well as constraints to the supply of the commodity.
A further analysis of the latest documents from NESO showed that power generation moved up to 3,663.3MW on February 2, after recovering from the first collapse of the month.
The system performance chart also showed that the quantum of power generation on the grid on February 3 was 3,904.3MW, which was the most recent date as released by NESO on Sunday.
In his explanation on the reasons for the grid collapses in January, the Chief Executive Officer, TCN, Usman Mohammed, stated that there was a need for adequate investment in order to stabilise the grid.
He stated, “There are certain things that need to be put in place for us to have grid stability and one of them is that we need to put in adequate investments. One of the key investments that we need to do quickly is that we need to build another line between Benin and Omotosho.
“When we do that, we think that we will be able to stabilise the grid, because 70 per cent of the instability we have is between Lagos and Benin. This, of course, is because we have so many generation stations located on that axis.”
But the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, insisted that the Federal Government was working hard to fix the power sector, stressing that despite the country’s electricity challenges, Nigeria was still exporting power to Republics of Benin, Niger and Togo.
In a statement, the minister noted that in terms of population as a function of energy need of a country, “Niger is running on 80MW; Republic of Togo, 200MW, less than Abuja; Ghana is about 3,000MW installed capacity and they are not producing all of that. Lagos alone is getting 1,200MW; one state, half of another country. So we must understand the dynamics of electricity use.”
Referring particularly to a comment that Germany was exporting power, Fashola stated, “Your country is exporting power too, to Niger, to Republic of Benin, to Togo, and we are selling gas to the West African sub-region.”
The minister called for collective effort to resolve the nation’s challenges rather than putting the country down.
He also reiterated the Federal Government’s commitment to the full implementation of the Power Sector Recovery Programme as a means of solving the seeming intractable challenges in the nation’s power sector.

http://punchng.com/power-grid-records-first-collapse-in-february/amp/

Evil in the land...

No power supply and yet Ekedp, Ikeja and co are distibuting bills to pay for light we are not using

We need to improve transmission

Thank God fashola was uprooted from Lagos where he was over hyped and praised by the media to the National limelight so everybody can see how incompetent and empty he is.

Firefire:
Evil in the land...

BULLHARY'S BODY LANGUAGE

Its terrible Nigerians have now become used to electricity total collapse.. something that was never heard of.

Actually thought we have gotten to rockbottom with this govt and should have started with no alternative but progress, but it seems they are digging new lows to try out.

Power grid always going into coma every month now

Every thing is collapsing under this administration. 2019...#Back2Land #Back2Daura #B2L #B2D

Esseite:
Its terrible Nigerians have now become used to electricity total collapse.. something that was never heard of.

Actually thought we have gotten to rockbottom with this govt and should have started with no alternative but progress, but it seems they are digging new lows to try out.

And we still paybills for electricity not used.

When shall we have stable light lalasticlala

"Any govt. that cannot provide stable electricity for it's citizens in six months is irresponsible" - Babatunde Raji Fashola.

This is Why corruption can not eradicate in Nigeria

Omooba77:
After collapsing six times in the first eight days of this year, Nigeria’s electricity grid recorded another collapse on the first day of the second month.
Documents obtained from the Nigeria Electricity System Operator, an arm of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, on Sunday in Abuja showed that the national electricity grid crashed from a high of 4,699.9 megawatts on January 31, to 219MW on February 1.
On January 30, The PUNCH exclusively reported that the generation statistics of NESO showed that the country’s power grid collapsed six times in the first eight days of this year.
The collapse was attributed to disruptions to gas production as well as constraints to the supply of the commodity.
A further analysis of the latest documents from NESO showed that power generation moved up to 3,663.3MW on February 2, after recovering from the first collapse of the month.
The system performance chart also showed that the quantum of power generation on the grid on February 3 was 3,904.3MW, which was the most recent date as released by NESO on Sunday.
In his explanation on the reasons for the grid collapses in January, the Chief Executive Officer, TCN, Usman Mohammed, stated that there was a need for adequate investment in order to stabilise the grid.
He stated, “There are certain things that need to be put in place for us to have grid stability and one of them is that we need to put in adequate investments. One of the key investments that we need to do quickly is that we need to build another line between Benin and Omotosho.
“When we do that, we think that we will be able to stabilise the grid, because 70 per cent of the instability we have is between Lagos and Benin. This, of course, is because we have so many generation stations located on that axis.”
But the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, insisted that the Federal Government was working hard to fix the power sector, stressing that despite the country’s electricity challenges, Nigeria was still exporting power to Republics of Benin, Niger and Togo.
In a statement, the minister noted that in terms of population as a function of energy need of a country, “Niger is running on 80MW; Republic of Togo, 200MW, less than Abuja; Ghana is about 3,000MW installed capacity and they are not producing all of that. Lagos alone is getting 1,200MW; one state, half of another country. So we must understand the dynamics of electricity use.”
Referring particularly to a comment that Germany was exporting power, Fashola stated, “Your country is exporting power too, to Niger, to Republic of Benin, to Togo, and we are selling gas to the West African sub-region.”
The minister called for collective effort to resolve the nation’s challenges rather than putting the country down.
He also reiterated the Federal Government’s commitment to the full implementation of the Power Sector Recovery Programme as a means of solving the seeming intractable challenges in the nation’s power sector.

http://punchng.com/power-grid-records-first-collapse-in-february/amp/

Is the electricity used in other country different from ours or are we inventing our own kind of electricity

I dey try understand this our country's power sector

This people sha

Nigeria, the only country that pay for darkness more than light...

This APC & and news are like family.

Where the minister of Darkness sef?

I weep for my dear country Nigeria... Nigeria is the only country where you pay for darkness.





STUBBORN PIMPLES/ACNE SPOTS... CHECK MY SIGNATURE!

Electricity is stable at ifako ijaiye..

So to provide electricity 24/7 is now rocket science And now why is there no steady power supply since PDP have been booted out for the past three years.
Fashola is an over-hyped wonder incompetent SAN.

in conclusion, there will be no light for us again

anytime they talk about this light thing I no dey get light... which power grid are they talking about?, does it mean there was light all through January?

where all of una dey live.?

No light around unizik for the past one month.. Which power grid is unizik axis using coz I don't understand

Ok

If there are demons ruling Nigeria, I think they are more in the power sector.

Collapse is gradually becoming a part of our national vocabulary

nawaa

Okay what else is new?

Faahola now knows it is wrong for people to put their country down. Uhmm!, o ga. Wonder they said shall never end. Taste of the pudding is in the eating.

3000 before collapse?

I thought Lai Mohammed said 7000 MW