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February 17, 2019
Electricity distribution companies do not believethat there are about 2,000 megawatts of electricity that are stranded in theNigerian power sector.
According to the Discos, the Federal Government’scontinuous claim that about 2,000MW of electricity had been stranded for overone year is difficult to comprehend.
In June 2018, the Minister of Power, Works andHousing, Babatunde Fashola, declared that about 2,000 megawatts of electricityproduced by power generation companies had been left stranded, as Discos lackedthe capacity to take all the generated electricity.
To effectively utilise the stranded power, thegovernment introduced the Eligible Customer Policy, an initiative that empowerspower consumers to buy electricity directly from generation companies insteadof waiting to be supplied power by the Discos.
The policy, however, had yet to yield the desiredresults, as the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Power, Works andHousing, Louis Edozien, announced at a workshop in Abuja that since two yearsafter the Eligible Customer Policy was unveiled by Fashola, no one had beenfully licensed to enjoy the initiative.