Shortage of gas, faults and maintenance works on plants have combined to reduce power generation in the country to 3,674.9 megawatts from the 6,668.6MW available capacity of the power stations as of Monday.
Available generation records from the National Control Centre and the Transmission Company of Nigeria showed that 2,993.7MW was the quantum of electricity that the system was losing due largely to gas shortage.
Since the handover of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria successor companies to new investors, the generation firms have been complaining of a drop in the supply of gas to fire their plants.
The development has led to erratic electricity supply across the country although there have been promises of improvements in the near future.
About 80 per cent of the power plants, which are gas-fired, are deprived of regular gas supply. The Geregu, Omotosho and Olorunsogo plants with available capacities of 414MW, 126MW and 252MW could only generate 143MW, 81.2MW and 164.7MW, respectively due to gas constraints.
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