Minister of Power, Prof. Barth Nnaji has announced that power
supply in the country has reached a peak capacity of 4,237megawatts. Nnaji in a statement from his media aide, Mr.
Ogbuagu Anikwe, in Abuja stated that the increase however excludes national
spinning reserves pointing out that this is the highest power output ever to be
generated in the country.
Disclosing this development to Directors in the ministry,
Nnaji attributed the sharp increase to gas availability, praising the efforts
of the Nigeria Gas Company (NGC) and the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs.
Diezani Alison-Madueke in delivering on the promise to supply gas to thermal
plants in the country.
The minister also said in the statement that although water
levels have also improved at the dams, hydro power plant managers at Kainji,
Jebba and Shiroro are operating a management system designed to ensure that
there is water for power all year round. Nnaji stressed that the transmission
backbone has been able to wheel the power produced effortlessly, adding that
when President Goodluck Jonathan assumed office in May 2010, the quantum of
power generated in Nigeria was about 2,800mw. He explained that the figure
spiked by 1000mw within one year, mostly through recoveries from existing plant
capacities and that by January 2012, the generation capacity had peaked to
about 4,100mw.
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