About forty per cent of the power generation plants in the Nigeria Supply Industry, NESI has been shut due to low demand for electricity by the Distribution Companies, DISCOS.
There are twenty eight power generating plants across the country’s electricity market, eight five per cent of the power generated is from gas fired plants.
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General Manager, System Operator Emmanuel Umoh newsmen during a training workshop in Shiroro Hydroelectric Power Plant, Shiroro in Niger State.
According to Umoh, the Nigeria Supply Industry allocates between two hundred and sixty and three hundred megawatts daily to Benin Republic, while one hundred and twenty to one hundred and thirty. Nigeria Supplies Industry to Niger Republic.
He said the rejection of load is responsible for instability of the grid as the System Operator of the Transmission Company of Nigeria TCN always compels the generating firms to shut-down operations for unutilised load to avoid high voltage and damage to transmission transformers and system collapse.
