Electricity Generation Drops Below 2,500mw - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 6, 2019
Thenation’s electricity generation has dropped below two-thousand-five-hundredmegawatts amid low load-demand by the distribution companies, Discos.
TheNigeria Electricity System Operator says total output from the nation’stwenty-seven power plants dropped to two-thousand-six-hundred-andforty-nine-point-one megawatts on Friday, and it further fell to  two-thousand-four-hundred-and-ninety-twomegawatts on Saturday.
Latestdata obtained on Sunday showed that two-thousand-one-hundred-and-twenty-sixmegawatts generation capacity was unavailable as of Thursday, as a result oflow load-demand by the Discos.
Thesystem operator put the nation’s installed generation capacity attwelve-thousand-nine-hundred-and-ten-point-forty megawatts; available capacityat seven-thousand-six-hundred-and-fifty-two-point-six megawatts; transmissionwheeling capacity at eight-thousand-one-hundred megawatts; and the peakgeneration ever attained at five-thousand-three-hundred-and seventy-fivemegawatts.
Thenation generates most of its electricity from gas-fired power plants, whileoutput from hydro-power plants makes up about thirty percent of the total.