Lack of distribution infrastructure prevents GenCos from generating 2,352.5 megawatts
The report also attributed the 2,352 .5 megawatts not generated to high frequency.
Lack of distribution infrastructure prevents GenCos from generating 2,352.5 megawatts. [Legit]
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This is contained in a daily energy report by the Advisory Power Team, office of the Vice President, a copy of which was obtained by News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday.
The report also attributed the 2,352 .5 megawatts not generated to high frequency.
It also noted that 1.55 megawatts of electricity was not generated due to unavailability of transmission infrastructure during the period.
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Similarly, it said that 1,551 megawatts was not generated due to 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.
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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.
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