•From left: Chief Executive Officer, Ikeja Distribution Company, Chris Akamnonu and Managing Director, Nigerian Independent Power Projects (NIPP), James Olotu at the ceremony, at Ikorodu, Lagos.
With deteriorating generating capacity and high inefficiencies, the nation’s electricity system (generation, transmission, and distribution) is under stress, requiring urgent measures to ensure that the electricity demand is commensurate with growth, DANIEL ESSIET reports.
As the economy grows, so is the demand for electricity, which has surpassed the capacity of the current electricity generation levels.
Across the country, power shortages have become the norm with some areas barely receiving 12 hours of electricity supply. In the wake of massive blackouts, half of the country’s population have been left without power. This is attributed to technical challenges that prevent sufficient volumes of electricity from being delivered to end-users. The challenges span across the entire power system value chain: from insufficient capacity to large losses in the transmission and distribution networks.
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