Power supply drops by 388.83MW

Even as Nigerians hope and pray for improved electricity power supply, available supply has dipped from 4,008.53Mega Watts (MW) to 3,619.70MW as at Wednesday, according to the Power Statistics of the Federal Ministry of Power.
Of the 3,704.73MW which the Electricity Generation Companies (GENCOs) produced, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) could not evacuate 85.03MW.
The ministry also noted that the peak generation was 4,307.4MW, while peak generation of the last Sunday statistics was 4,405.3MW, indicating a drop of 97.9MW.
The Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) had maintained an average of 4,006MW in 10 days before the current drop in supply.
Energy generated that was 4,099.72MW on September 16 however dipped negligibly to 4,098.31MW on Sunday, indicating a relatively steady average power generation in the electricity market in 10 days.
The market however dropped from the 4,735MW peak energy generation of September 16 to 4,405.3MW last Sunday, resulting in gap of 329.7MW.

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In NESI, the highest power generated is still the 4,810.7 MW of August 25.
The chairman, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Dr. Sam Amadi had last Monday explained that there was a fire outbreak at the Kainji Hydro Power Plant last week Wednesday accounting for lower power supply.
The chairman had noted that Calabar Power Plant would soon come on stream to raise the power generation base of the market.

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