By Oluwagbenga Bankole
Nigerians hope of enjoying more
hours of electricity supply have received a boost this is because the country’s
electricity generation has increased by 871.9 megawatt in two weeks from 3700mw
it recorded two weeks ago to 4,078.20MW.
According to data obtained by
Nigerian NewsDirect from Federal Ministry of Power the new electricity peak
generation is still below the Peak Generation level of 4,810.7MW achieved on August 25th of
this year, although the country’s power generation
capacity currently stands at 6,000 MWs and is to the expected to grow to 40,000
MW by 2020.
It also put the nation’s daily
average energy distributed at 3,987.27mw, while Peak Demand forecast still stands at 12,800MW.
Meanwhile our correspondent gathered
that the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company and Eko Electricity
Distribution Company account for over 40 per cent of power consumption in
Nigeria.
Lagos which used to be the
country’s political capital before Abuja, remained Nigeria’s commercial and
industrial hub with a large concentration of industries in the state and the
adjoining Ogun State.
Nigerians in the nook and crannies
of the country acknowledged that power supply has improved drastically since
the inception of this present administration. The achievement according to experts
in the industry was achieved because vandalisation of gas pipelines which
supply power plants in the country have reduced drastically.
The improvement has made households
and businesses experiencing more hours of electricity unlike before. Running of
generators all through the night have no doubt reduced to the barest minimum.
Expects have predicted that the
current improvement in power supply if sustain will help the nation’s goal of
being among the top 20 economies of the world in 2020, a mileage that is merely
seven years away.
To sustain the current trend, the
former Minister of Power, Professor Barth Nnaji urged President Muhammadu
Buhari to sustain the power sector road map.
Speaking exclusively with Nigerian
NewsDirect, Nnaji also said that for the sector to achieve its aim of giving
Nigerians interrupted power supply, the sector requires integrity at various
level.
He noted that people should continue
to do the right thing for the country, adding the there should be no
compromise.
The Chief Executive Officer of
Geometric Power Limited noted that power reform was informed by government’s
decision to resolve the problems of power in the country and disclosed that
most of the pillars of the reform have been put in place.
“The government at some point
decided that okay, we are going to solve this problem of electricity, and
that’s why we talk about power reform. I will say that most of the pillars of
power reform are in place, all that remains now is implementation. The pillars
for example, we have a regulatory commission, we have bulk filter who buys
power from whoever produces power. We have appropriate tariff regime etc., so
all the things are in place but implementation must be correct,” he stated.
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