For a second time this year, the nation’s electricity grid collapsed, yesterday, plunging parts of the country into a blackout and worsening the supply situation in other parts.
The Guardian reports that yesterday’s development makes the 29th time in the last three years that the country would experience grid collapse. x
The supply failure, which occurred around 11.00 am, was confirmed by two of the country’s electricity distribution companies in separate messages to their customers.
“We regret to inform you that the power outage currently being experienced across our franchise – Kaduna, Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara states – is a result of the collapse of the national grid,” Kaduna Electric said on Twitter.
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’Femi Asu
The Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading Plc failed to pay power producers a total of N143.79bn in the third quarter of this year for the electricity produced and fed into the national grid.
The government-owned NBET buys electricity in bulk from power generation companies through Power Purchase Agreements and sells through vesting contracts to the distribution companies, which then supply it to the consumers.
NBET received a total invoice of N193.26bn from the Gencos in the three-month period but only paid N49.44bn, representing 25.58 per cent of the invoice.
The power stations gave NBET a total invoice of N64.13bn in July; N67.83bn in August, and N61.30bn in September.
ABUJA – The Nigerian Electricity System Operator (NESO) in its latest electricity generation data report, indicates that the sector generated a total of 4,730.93MW while there was an increase in unutilised generation to the tune of 1,390.5MW. NESO attributed the poor energy generation statistics to the constraints in the sector, stressing that while daily generation averaged
OpeOluwani Akintayo
Lagos The Dadin Kowa Hydropower Plant in Gombe State, with a total capacity of 60 megawatts, MW, has been added to Nigeria’s national grid.
The new plant was added to the grid on Friday.
The plant brings the number of hydro electricity plants in the country to four.
However, despite a 60MW capacity, data from the Nigerian Electricity System Operator, NESO, on Sunday showed that the plant produced just half of its capacity – 30.65MW – as at 6 AM on Sunday, a bit up from exactly 30MW generated on Friday.
Hydroelectricity plants contribute just about 30 percent of total national generation as Nigeria generates most of its electricity from gas-fired plants.