40 percent of power generators shutdown for low demand

Over 40 percent of the power generation plants in the Nigeria Supply Industry have been shut down because of low demand for electricity by the distribution companies.

According to him, the NESI allocates about 260mw to 300mw daily to Republic of Benin and 120mw to 130mw to Niger Republic.The load rejection of load, according to him, is responsible for instability of the grid as the SO of the Transmission Company of Nigeria always compels the generating firms to shutdown operations for unutilised load to avoid high voltage and damage to transmission transformers and system collapse.

He said the TCN now relies of whatever load the DisCos demand to direct generation companies’ production to avoid waste since Nigeria cannot store electricity.

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