The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, says the sabotage of power assets by militants has prevented the nation from generating 7,000 MW of electricity.
The minister,
who disclosed that the nation’s power grid could now support 6,500 MW debunked claims that the capacity of the nation’s power grid is not more than 5,000 MW. He added that if pushed to its limit, the nation’s grid could as well carry 7,200 MW.
who disclosed that the nation’s power grid could now support 6,500 MW debunked claims that the capacity of the nation’s power grid is not more than 5,000 MW. He added that if pushed to its limit, the nation’s grid could as well carry 7,200 MW.
A statement by the minister’s media aide, Hakeem Bello, stated that Mr. Fashola said this while speaking at the January edition of the Nextier Power Dialogue held at the Thought Pyramid Art Centre, Abuja.
According to the statement, Mr. Fashola said, “You hear us announcing that we commissioned one
transmission project or the other, you see me going round for these commissioning; that is the Grid evolving. Today, at its most frugal, it would support 6,500MW; pushed to its limit it would carry 7,200MW.
“So it is not true when you hear that the Grid capacity is not more than 5,000MW. It is growing every day and more projects are coming up.
We have completed some and more are still coming up. So that is where we are.”
The Minister said while power was out due to attacks in one axis, the expansion of either the Grid or gas supply was kept alive on another axis and hydro power was also being expanded.
He added that though over 3,000MW has been lost recently to attacks on gas infrastructure, a steady average of about 3,000MW to 4,000MW was built back from around August until last week.
“Now it means that notionally, if we had those 3,000MW plus 4,000MW we were already at 7,000MW. But we would not have it because some of our family members are angry,” he said referring to militants.
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