ELECTRICITY IN NIGERIA? AT MERCY OF ONLY FIVE. STATIONS.
Should anything happen to five out of 25 power stations in Nigeria, the nation's current precarious power supply will be almost nonexistent.
According to the power generation and evacuation report for the fourth quarter of 2016 issued recently by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), five power stations out of 25 generated about 55.5% average monthly generated power within the quarter.
According to the report, the monthly average was 2548 MW out of which Egbin power station accounted for 12.47% just slightly ahead of AES Barge Okpai which was responsible for 12.13%.
The third station was Jebba which generated 11.45% ahead of 10.87% by Shiroro dam and 8.58% by Kainji dam.
Their contributions to evacuated power, though, was slightly lower at about 55.19% with AES Barge, Okpai responsible for 12.13% of power evacuated to the grid.
It was this time ahead of Egbin station's 11.98% even though Egbin generated more.
Shiroro accounted for 11.06% of 2497MW average monthly sent power as against 11.43% by Jebba and 8.59% by Kainji.
The five power stations that generated the least were TransAmadi which contributed 0.12% of the monthly average; Nesco responsible for 0.32%; Ibom Power 0.38%, Sapele 0.54% and Olorunsogo 0.83%.
Together they were responsible for only 2.19% of national monthly average.
The 25 stations as grouped by the NBS included Afam i-v as one while Afam vi was another station.
Afam i-v did not contribute anything within the quarter.
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