Nigeria’s energy supply rose by 4.3% on Wednesday to 90,480.67MWh compared to 86,760.88MWh recorded on the previous day.
Gatekeepers News reports that this is the highest recorded since the past week when the national grid witnessed a collapse.
Also, energy generation hit 3,954.2MW on Wednesday, increasing by 1.3% compared to 3,904.6MW recorded the previous day. Similarly, off-peak generation rose by 21.2% to 3,553.4MW during the day.
The improvement in energy supply is following the downturn recorded last weekend when the electricity supply in the country crashed by 47.3% to 37,440.1MWh, which is the lowest level since the recovery from the national grid collapse in March.
Gatekeepers News reports that the national grid has collapsed several times this year, causing blackouts in many parts of the country.
The Minister of Power, Aliyu Abubakar, has said the national grid collapsed as a result of vandals, who disrupted the transmission tower between Akwa Ibom and Cross River states.
Abubakar said, “While a detailed investigation into the immediate and remote causes of the recurring grid failure is currently ongoing by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission and System Operator (the operator of the national grid), the process of restoring supply is ongoing with some sections of the national grid already energised, and supply restored to consumers.”
“Further to our earlier press release, we wish to apprise the general public that the immediate cause of the national blackout (system collapse) was an act of vandalism on a transmission tower on the Odukpani — Ikot Ekpene 330kV double circuit transmission line thus resulting in a sudden loss of about 400MW of generation. This consequently led to a cascade of plants shut down across the country.”
“We wish to notify the public that power on the grid is being restored sequentially by the system operator as other on-grid power plants are being dispatched to cover the lost generation capacity from the Calabar power plant owned by the Niger Power Holding Company Ltd.”
