There has been a very poor supply of electricity in the country which the ministry of Power has come out to defend. the drop in power generation according to the Ministry of Power, was as a result of low gas supply to the thermal power plants. The power generation dropped from a peak of 4,517 megawatts attained in December 2012 to 3,443 mega watts attained on Tuesday April 9th.
The power generation report provided by
the Ministry of Power revealed that peak generation as of Saturday was
2,987.6 MW, while the peak demand forecast was 10,200MW. Energy
generation was put at 68,953.24 megawatts hours, while the actual energy
sent out was 67,360.24MWH.
This is considered by power industry
analysts as a huge break from the highest peak generation of 4,517 MW on
December 21, 2012 and 98,580MWH energy on December 19, 2012, one of the
highest ever sent out in the country
Explaining what led to the drastic fall, the
Minister stated that “a few days ago, precisely last week Friday,
Chevron shut down its gas plant for maintenance purposes which was to
take place between Friday and Saturday. And the technical crew in the
power sector knew about the shut down and this was in order to make sure
that damages are not done before losing the gas entirely.”
“From time to time there is going to be shut down
and it happened two times recently between Benin and Osogbo. If you
don’t shutdown these plants, in order to have a safe restarting process,
you are going to lose the equipment. Once routine maintenance is done,
the process of restarting the machines that were shutdown take some
time.”
“That is why between two and three days we lost
some 1112MW. That means Omotoso and Olorunsogo plants were forced to
shut down because there was no gas supply.
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