Nigeria's Power Generating Capacity Drops Due To Lack Of Distribution Capacity

Nigeria has continued to lose about 2,352 megawatts of electricity capacity to lack of basic power distribution infrastructure in the country, power generation companies have said.

According to a report from the office of the nation's Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, about 1.55 megawatts of electricity were not generated due to the unavailability of transmission infrastructure during the period.
Similarly, it said that 1,551 megawatts were not generated due to the unavailability of gas.
The report, however, said that the GenCos released an average of 3,500 MegaWatts-Hour of electricity into the national grid.
It said that the electricity sent out by the GenCos was up by 98.87 megawatts from the 3,401 released on Tuesday.
The report said zero megawatts was recorded as losses due to water management procedures.
The report revealed that the power sector lost an estimated over N1.94 billion due to insufficient gas supply, distribution, and transmission infrastructure.
On sector reform/activities, it said that the dominant constraint for Wednesday was high frequency resulting from unavailability of distribution infrastructure.
The report said that the peak generation attained on Monday was 4, 140 megawatts.