The
country’s energy situation is so bad that it was only better than Yemen, a
war-torn country, in 2017.
Fashola
during visitation to the Mainland Independent Power Project, Lagos (Techpoint)
Nigeria has
been ranked the second worst country in power/electricity supply in 2017. This
is as the country was only able to supply a daily average of 3,851 megawatts
(MW) to its 180 million population.
According to
a report by the Spectator Index, the electricity supply in 137 countries were
examined and Yemen ranked the worst nation. Nigeria, Haiti, Lebanon and Malawi
followed the war-torn middle east country to make a list of top 5 countries
with worst electricity supply in the year under review.
Other
African economies that ranked high on the list are Ethiopia 37 position, South
Africa 41st and Algeria 45th.
Other report
validating the ranking
Advisory
Power Team (APT) also reported that the total electricity distributed by
Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) as at January 14, 2018, stood at 3,
851.06mw. A report which confirms the assessment of the rating company.
“On January
14, 2018, average power sent out was 3,851MWh/hour (down by 169MWh/h from the
previous day). 1437.9MW was not generated due to unavailability of gas,"
said the APT report.
“0MW was not
generated due to unavailability of line infrastructure, while 680.5MW was not
generated due to high frequency resulting from the unavailability of
distribution infrastructure. 290MW was not generated due to unavailability of
water.”
Meanwhile,
the Advisory Power Team report showed that the current capacity of Nigeria’s
national grid is 4, 000 MW.
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