Power generation drops to 2,000Mw

Power generation in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) on Tuesday  dropped to about 2,000 Mega Watts (Mw) from a peak generation of 4,300MW early in the week.

The decline followed a partial system collapse at the Shiroro Power Station.

It was also gathered  that due to the collapse, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) reduced the allocation to the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) from 450MW to 245MW yesterday .

However, the situation yesterday worsened to the extent that  allocation to the Abuja Disco stood at about  181.77Mw.

A source said there was a partial system’s collapse on Tuesday at Shiroro, which brought down generation to about 2000MW from the 4300 peak that was attained earlier in the week.

“At about 7.34am today, (yesterday the allocation rose to about 327MW, but caved

in again at 9.48am to 181.77MW. The situation deteriorated to 131.77MW as at 1.25pm,” a source said