Power sector loses N2.2bn to gas supply shortages

Nigeria’s power sector lost an estimated N2.2 billion on Monday due to insufficient gas supply, distribution and transmission infrastructure, a report by the Advisory Power Team in the office of the Vice President, has said.

The team in its energy daily report released on Tuesday in Abuja also said that Electricity Generation Companies (GenCos), which comprised gas-fired and hydro station, were unable to generate 4, 200 megawatts of electricity on the same date due to unavailability of gas.

It said 0 megawatts of electricity was not generated due to unavailability of transmission infrastructure during the period, stating that 3.95 megawatts were not generated due to high frequency resulting from unavailability of distribution infrastructure.

The report, however, said the GenCos released an average of 3,706 MegaWatts/Hour of electricity into the national grid on Monday.

It said the electricity sent out by the GenCos was down by 308.09 megawatts from the 4,014 released on Sunday.

On sector reform/activities, it said the dominant constraint for Monday was unavailability of gas, adding that the peak generation attained on was 3,995.3 megawatts.   

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