The nation’s electricity grid has collapsed 108 times after the power
sector was privatised, data from the Transmission Company of Nigeria
have shown.
The TCN, which manages the national grid, is still fully owned and operated by the government.
While
the TCN says the grid has a wheeling capacity of 8,100MW, the highest
power generation ever attained in the country stands at 5,375MW.
The
sector was privatised by the President Goodluck Jonathan administration
with 11 electricity distribution companies and six generation companies
handed over to core investors on November 1, 2013.
Between
November 1, 2013 and May 2020, the number of total grid collapse
recorded was 83 while the grid partially collapsed 25 times.
A
total system collapse means total blackout nationwide, while partial
system collapse is a failure of a section of the grid, according to the
Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission
The grid has continued
to suffer system collapse over the years amid lack of spinning reserve
that is meant to forestall such occurrences.
Spinning reserve is
the generation capacity that is online but unloaded and that can respond
within 10 minutes to compensate for generation or transmission outages.
Although five power stations are meant to provide spinning reserves, sometimes none may have actual reserve.
The power stations are Egbin, Delta, Olorunsogo NIPP, Geregu NIPP and Omotosho NIPP.
The
Nigerian Economic Summit Group recently advised the Federal Government
to complete the power and energy sector deregulation process by opening
up the transmission segment of the power value chain to private
participation and investments.
The group said in its 2020 Macroeconomic Outlook,
“In doing this, three criteria should be considered for willing and
prospective investors – managerial experience, technical expertise and
financial capabilities.
“These are key to the success of the power/energy sector reform road map in Nigeria.”
The
system operator, an arm of the TCN, put the nation’s installed
generation capacity at 12,910.40MW; available capacity at 7,652.60MW;
transmission wheeling capacity at 8,100MW; and the peak generation ever
attained at 5,375MW.
In another development, the leadership of
the National Assembly on Monday met and convinced electricity
distribution companies to defer the plan to hike tariffs till the first
quarter of 2021.
This was contained in a statement issued late
Tuesday by the Special Adviser to the Senate President on Media and
Publicity, Ola Awoniyi.
The statement read, “The President of the
Senate, Ahmad Lawan, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi
Gbajabiamila, and other principal officers of the two chambers met at
the National Assembly with the chief executive of the government
electricity regulatory body and Discos across the country.
“The
meeting agreed to defer the planned hike till first quarter of next year
while the leadership of the National Assembly promised to meet with
President Muhammadu Buhari on the issue.”
“The agreement here is
that there is not going to be any increase in the tariffs on July 1st,”
Lawan was quoted to have said at the end of the meeting.
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