Some power plant units were being shut due to high frequency occasioned by the inability of the distribution companies to pick their load allocations. – Nigeria lost about 2,821.5MW of electricity generation on Monday, March 14 due to the rejection of loads by the Discos Share on FacebookShare on TwitterMinister for Power, Works and Housing , Babatunde Fashola Investigation has revealed that electricity distribution companies across Nigeria are rejecting load allocations from power generating plants thereby throwing the nation into darkness. According to a report by Punch, some power plant units were being shut due to high frequency occasioned by the inability of the distribution companies to pick their load allocations. The report said Nigeria lost about 2,821.5MW of electricity generation on Monday, March 14 due to the rejection of loads by the Discos.
The affected plants are by the load rejection or low load demands were Shiroro, Jebba, Egbin, Okpai and Afam VI and plants under the National Integrated Power Project, including Alaoji, Odukpani and Ihovbor. Shiroro and Jebba saw their generation levels reduce to 200MW and 260MW, compared to capacities of 300MW and 341MW, respectively. Odukpani generated 60.1MW instead of its capacity of 360MW; Egbin, 820MW (880MW); Alaoji, 51.5MW (117MW); Ihovbor, 78.4Mw (109MW); Okpai, 282MW (366MW); and Afam VI, 378MW (555MW). Recall that the general secretary, National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) Mr Joe Ajaero, had claimed in a statement on Monday that the real saboteurs of the power sector were those who refused allocations from the national grid for onward distribution to consumers. But a former top executive in one of the power firms told Punch that a distribution company could decide to reject load due to low revenue generation from a segment of its customer base. find out why Also, the acting chief executive officer, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, Mr Anthony Akah, said: “Clearly, the issue of load rejection has been addressed by the commission.
Under the new regime, that is the Transitional Electricity Market, the distribution companies can no longer reject load that is within the allocation level that they are supposed to get. “If it is due to the constraint of the distribution companies, they will be penalised for that. If it is the transmission company, it will also have to be penalised. That essentially has been taken care of, unless there are other reasons behind why it happened.”
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