Energy Briefs
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THE nation’s power generation capacity dropped slightly from 3,959 megawatts to 3,751.90MW from January 4 to January 12, due to the dearth of gas. The Nigerian Electricity System Operator (SO), a sub-agency of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, disclosed the figure on its daily forecast website on power generation data in Lagos, on Thursday, January 12.
The TCN put the total output of all the generation companies at 3,751.90 megawatts, which have been transferred to the 11 distribution companies across the country. The country’s power generation also recorded the lowest peak at 2,876.80 megawatts.
According to the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) operational report for Jan. 4, the power sector hit a peak generation of 4,959 megawatts as against 3,321 megawatts recorded in December 2.
The NESI said that the sector recorded highest system frequency of 51.27Hz; lowest system frequency of 48.22 Hz; highest voltage recorded was 372KV, while lowest voltage recorded on the same day was 300KV.
— Jan 23, 2017 @ 01:00 GMT
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