Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola
The power generation in Nigeria has dropped again as new revelation shows that as many as seven power plants are lying idle.
A The Punch report has shown that the nation’s power generation has
fallen below the 3,000 megawatts mark as the number of idle power
plants increased to eight on Sunday from five on Friday.
According to the report, the nation’s power grid lost a total of
743.4MW over the weekend as generation dropped from 3,306.6MW on Friday
to 2,632.4MW and 2,563.2MW on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.
The total generation stood at 2,886.7MW as of 6am on Monday, with
seven power plants, including Sapele II and Alaoji II not generating any
megawatt.
Other idle plants on Monday were Afam IV & V, Gbarain II, AES,
ASCO and Rivers IPP, according to the latest data from the Federal
Ministry of Power, Works and Housing.
Electricity generation from the nation’s biggest power station,
Egbin, located in Lagos, dropped to 272MW as of 6am on Monday from 381MW
and 312MW and on Friday and Sunday, respectively.
The power grid, which has suffered 13 total collapses this year,
experienced a partial collapse last Wednesday, the third of such this
year.
At Afam IV & V, units GT1 to 12 have been de-commissioned and
scrapped; GT13 to 16 are out on blade failure; GT17 and 18 out due to
burnt generator transformer; and GT19 and 20 are awaiting major
overhaul.
Sapele II’s GT1 unit was said to be out on undisclosed fault; GT2
tripped on low gas pressure; GT3 out on bearing lift pump trouble; and
GT4 tripped on loss of auxiliary.
Units GT1, 2 and 4 of Alaoji were said to be out due to gas
constraints, while GT3 was shut down due to generator air inlet filter
trouble.
Gbarain II’s GT2 was said to be out for frequency management, while AES has been out of production since September 27, 2014.
Unit GT1 of ASCO has been shut down due to leakage in the furnace,
while the Rivers Independent Power Plants has been out of production
since September 16, 2016.
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