The power sector lost over N2. 3 billion on Sunday due to the insufficient gas supply, a daily energy report by the advisory power team, office of the vice president, has said.
The report, which was obtained by our reporter Monday night in Abuja, also said the Electricity Generation Companies (GenCos), comprising gas-fired and hydro stations, released an average of 3,238 MegaWatts/Hour of electricity into the national grid on the same day.
It said the electricity sent out by the GenCos was down by 208.6 megawatts from the figure released on Saturday.
It, however, said 1,878 megawatts could not be generated due to unavailability of gas.
The report stated that megawatts were not generated due to unavailability of transmission infrastructure during the period.
Similarly, it said 2,920 megawatts were not generated due to high frequency resulting from unavailability of distribution infrastructure.
According to the report, zero megawatts was recorded as losses due to water management procedures.
On sector reform/activities, it said the dominant constraint for Sunday was high frequency resulting from unavailability of distribution infrastructure.
The report said the peak generation attained on Sunday was 4, 052 megawatts.