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tolexy007:
Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja
Despite getting 66.53 per cent of the total amount of domestic gas supply for one year, Nigeria’s electricity generation has remained low.
Figures obtained on Friday (5.21pm) by our correspondent from the country’s power System Operator indicated that electricity generation had dropped further to 2,035.20MW.
This showed a drop of about 800MW from 2,841.9MW, which was given as of 12.42pm on Thursday by the SO.
Ironically, the latest data from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation showed that the percentage allocation of gas to power plants in Nigeria from February 2015 to the end of January this year was far higher than what was allocated to manufacturing sector.
The report stated that although the power plants received close to 70 per cent of the total domestic gas allocation, power generation in Nigeria had continued to hover around 3,000 megawatts to 3,500 megawatts. The Federal Government had early last year set a 2015 target of at least 6,000MW.
Although there had been series of complaints of gas pipelines rupturing by vandals, the latest figures from the NNPC’s group financial report showed specifically that gas-fired power plants got an average of 701.84 million standard cubic feet of gas per day or 66.53 per cent from February 2015 to January 2016, as against the 353.06mmscfd or 33.47 per cent gas that was supplied to industries.
The NNPC said, “From the 1,134.41mmscfd of gas supplied to the domestic market in January 2016, about 733.5mmscfd of gas representing 64.66 per cent was used for gas-fired power plants while the balance of 400.9mmscfd or 35.34 per cent was supplied to other industries.
“Similarly, for the period of February 2015 to January 2016, an average of 1,054.90mscfd of gas was supplied to the domestic market comprising an average of 701.84mmscfd or (66.53per cent) as gas supply to the power plants and 353.06mmscfd or (33.47 per cent) as gas supply to industries.”
The corporation added that “a total of 734mmscfd was delivered to the gas fired power plants in the month of January 2016 to generate an average power of about 3,237MW compared with February 2015 to January 2016 average gas supply 699mmscfd and power generation of 2,990MW.”
Operators in the power sector as well their counterparts in the oil and gas industry on several occasions had blamed the poor performance of power firms on the recurrent rupturing of pipelines supplying gas to the plants.
Even as they itted that gas supply to power had been high when compared with what industries got, they maintained that until the trend of vandalism in the power and oil/gas sectors reduced considerably or stopped, the issue of low electricity generation might persist.
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, had during the first stakeholders meeting involving operators in the power and oil/gas sectors, said that he would ensure that there was adequate gas supply for electricity generation, but frowned at the level of pipeline vandalism.
Similarly, the Executive Director, Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors, Mr. Sunday Oduntan, told our correspondent that the low electricity generation was not entirely the fault of power firms.
He noted, for instance, that the fall in electricity generation earlier in March this year was as a result of the industrial action by workers in the transmission arm of the power sector.
Oduntan said, “The recent fall in power generation to 2,800MW happened when workers were picketing Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company and the union mandated the transmission persnnel in Osogbo to go on strike.
“After they embarked on strike, there was nobody to wheel the energy from generation to distribution companies. And this led to high temperature in the generation companies and they were forced to shut down. That’s what happened during that period early this month.”
On allegations that power distribution companies were compounding the sufferings of electricity consumers by not accepting the load allocated to them, Oduntan said such scenarios had stopped since last year.
He noted that the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission had penalised the companies that were involved to ensure that it did not reoccur.
Oduntan said, “If your allocation is 20 per cent and maybe allocation to Kano is five per cent, but it could not wheel the amount to Kano and decided to give the Kano Disco maybe three per cent. That means there is extra two per cent, and it now wants to give this amount to you.
“Now, if you take it, that is fine. You will pay for the energy. But in addition to that, it will penalise you and you will pay the internal penalty. This scenario happened sometime last year, around the middle and late 2015. As a result, NERC called for a meeting on the issue and withdrew that practice. So, it has stopped since then and even now, we have very low generation, less than the wheeling load.”
www.punchng.com/power-generation-drops-further-to-2035-20mw/

Of course it has dropped. I am even surprised it still at 2000+. This is because buhari is chasing western powers out. So we have to begin refining our oil, and generating our power ourselves. Not china, Not america, not british companies, but Nigerian companies. More will drop and take a down turn in the coming year, but they will start to quickly shapen up by 2018. What we need to be doing is helping out where we can rather than staying here campaigning for pdp loot.

Stable electricity shouldn't b rocket science nah!!!

APC and empty promises, we are in for a very long ride!

I said it

Body Language fah

Change indeed

Like play, like play, there will be a country.

This is what happens when we get angry with jona and give the country to some group of abookis to play football with

Please GOD, deliver us.....

Nigeria will soon turn to Somalia under PMB

What is wrong.... Must we suffer all the time

Pls pls pls...... we are tired. Is there nothing like "good news" something we can all cheer for in this dispensation

To read dis tread sef na wahala az in.(One of d reason I hate math) Power generation drop means we no go dey get light like b4 abi? Light dey dey b4? Not funny.

I blame government for all that. Electric power has been epileptic. Huge amount of productive hours are being wasted in search of fuel. Economy is in stand still mode if you can't provide stable power and freely available fuel.
Sabotage is everywhere, but government is ever dominant and overpower any kind of complicity.
With all the powers invested on the state, government's will and directives becomes inevitable.

Am good to know

imagine no light since dis year but NEPA dey bring light bill constant! no be beat dey want so. becuz na army dey sabi to carry na after u beat den! Nigerian in hell.

winilove:
Gud

Hello, how you doing?

Has Fashola started doing anything yet?

Buhari and APC had succeeded in CHAINING Nigeria

I pity Fashola, when he became Lagos state governor, there's is a structure on grounds prepared by Tinubu.
Good tax structures
Good planning.
Excess crude oil price, all state enjoyed crude @$120/$140.

This is a plane ground to prove himself.

Buhari and APC had succeeded in CHAINING Nigeria

pamsnod:
Change indeed

STFUareyouGod:
How did we get here?


Well, let's blame GEJ

GEJ did us a big favor by privatization. But on generation, the best he could do was 5000mw...which cannot give everyone 24 hours power supply.(12 hours a day for everyone.).

The magic number by which we must judge PMB is 14000MW. Which means...in the next three months...we must start building 10 power stations, and get working on the promised 24000mw nuclear power stations. And we must work on transmission too.

Money now is the issue.....although in my mind...we should direct money from elsewhere to power.

I call it the gravitational free fall of power

SmartMugu:
Has Fashola started doing anything yet?

Hopefully, but Tinubu structures Lagos for fashola, he need to prove his worth now.

Fashola enjoy excess crude oil boom with Jonathan.

Why the thing no kuku enter 0.00.25
So that we will know it is finished...

Well.. I used to be scared of darkness but when I saw my electricity bill, I'm now scared of Light

Mtchewww! Always giving excuse. Dem no dey tire?

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SleekAboki:
ingShot Gbawe egift ngeneukwenu demdem omenka aresa arresa how far with light in your area? Hope you are enjoying the change? Progressives wants to hear your onspot epistles of change.

When will tinubu call out Fashola the rocket science minister of power?

Enjoy the salivating while it lasts. We're in a marathon and not sprint race.

ingShot:

Enjoy the salivating while it lasts. We're in a marathon and not sprint race.

Please bring back champagne body odour. Naija was far better on body language.

pendusky:
Lets pretend as if there is nothing wrong with Nigeria in General...


I was given March 2016 PHCN bill on 15th Of March and only saw Light on 18th and since then, no light... I have to pay right

I am burning Generator after buying each day 5 liters for 160 naira (Since last month) that 800 naira, and we still pretend everything is okay good?

Prices of goods now double the original price and we still singing everything is okay in Nigeria

We are aware of the 50naira stamp charges on every 1000 naira deposited in my , Everything is okay right?

We are aware of the proposed 9% increment on Phone, Tv bills etc

1$=300+ naira and we are singing, Everything is allright in Nigeria...


Its Exact 1 months and 2 days to One year in Office of PMB...


Its Exact 3 years to Another Elections in Nigeria...


Let all Endure until a day like this in 2019 when we will all vote for another sufferings and chains...


God Bless Nigeria!!!!

God bless you dear for saying it the way it is,you just read my mind........but some people are pretending as if all is well.

lilprinze:
Nigerians should enjoy their change till 2019 many people failed to realize that there are two types of change positive and negative change.

This Pmb can not stay one day and practise this change. Its high time he and is family stop galivanting around the world and face the severe heat and mosquito that the owners of the Oil are seeing. The money he has squandered so far is more than enough to set up a Cancer and kidney transplant hospital hospital in nigeria, and provide free drugs.

How on earth did i vote this dubious party instaed of kowa?...d.amn!!!