Recently, there has been an electricity dip in the country. And many have intensified on the questions and improved on their complain in order to get a response and explanation on the current electricity situation of the country.
The federal government said the latest dip in electricity generation in the country is as a result of a partial shutdown of a gas plant.
The shutdown has resulted in a massive power outage across the country which has affected households, individuals and businesses.
The power grid has collapsed for the sixth time this year. The government blamed the last collapse on “vandalism” on a transmission tower on the Odukpani – Ikot Ekpene 330kV double circuit transmission line, which led to a loss of about 400MW of generation.
Isa Sanusi, spokesperson to the Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu in a statement said the Oben gas plant collapsed and failed to generate supply.
He also said the plant was shut down to allow for the repair of critical gas processing equipment.
Mr Sanusi said the incident occurred at a time when other power plants on other gas sources are undergoing planned maintenance and capacity test.
in the early hours of today, Eko Electricity Distribution Company informed its customers of power interruption. It stated“Dear Esteemed Customers, we regret to inform you of the significant drop in load allocation to our network which has led to massive load shedding,”
it said.“Kindly bear with us as we are currently working with our TCN partners for a swift resolution.”
“We wish to notify the public that Seplat Energy Plc has mobilized equipment, material and personnel to site with a view to expediting the restoration of normal gas supply to the affected power plants,”
He said.“We have been assured that the repair work would be concluded this weekend and normalcy will be restored.
While pleading with electricity consumers with the current state of supply, we wish to assure the general public that efforts are being made for a sustained improvement of supply across the country.”
Now Nigerians eagerly wait for normalcy to be restored in the power sector.
