Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola
The nation’s electricity woes worsened on Tuesday as two additional
power generating plants were shut down, bringing the total number of
plants not generating any megawatts of electricity to 10.
The two shut plants are Shiroro Power Station in Niger State and
Sapele II in Delta State, industry data obtained by our correspondent
showed.
Shiroro, whose capacity was put at 600MW, was said to have seen its
unit 411G1 tripped on emergency shutdown on the 86ES lockout relay;
units 411G2 and 3 out for under water repair work; and unit 411G4 out on
maintenance.
The Sapele II, built under the National Integrated Power Project,
with its capacity put at 225MW, has four units. The GT1 was shut down
for maintenance, GT3 out due to work by the Nigerian Gas Company at the
gas station, while the GT2 and 4 units are out as a result of gas
constraints.
Total national power generation stood at 2,774.2MW on Tuesday, down
from 3,657.5MW on March 31. Generation from Egbin, the nation’s biggest
power station, was limited to 415MW due to gas constraints, down from
1,085MW on March 15.
Shell’s Afam VI power plant generated the highest megawatts of electricity at 418MW as of 6:00am, the data showed.
The slide in power generation has worsened the blackout being
experienced in many parts of the country as many consumers complained of
outages lasting for hours on end.
The Punch had on Friday reported exclusively that eight of the
nation’s power plants were completely idle on Thursday, with significant
reduction in generation from others, including Egbin, which is located
in Lagos.
The plants, which did not generate any megawatts of electricity
included Sapele, Delta State, whose installed capacity was put at 240MW;
Olorunsogo II in Ogun State, with a capacity of 625MW; Rivers IPP
(180MW) and Trans-Amadi (75MW), both in Rivers State.
Others were Geregu I in Kogi; Afam IV & V in Rivers, and A.E.S and Asco, whose installed capacity were not given.
Sapele’s units were said to be shut due to gas constraints, tripping, maintenance and major overhaul, among other reasons.
The Rivers IPP’s unit GT1 was out due to gas constraints, while
Trans-Amadi’s GT1 and 4 units were out due to line constraints; GT2 due
to gas constraints and GT3 undergoing maintenance.
According to the data, there was no communication on A.E.S, while
Asco’s unit GT1 was out due to a fire outbreak. Olorunsogo’s units GT1
to 4 and ST2 were shut due to gas constraints, and ST1 for maintenance.
Geregu’s three units were shut due to outage and to enable them to
undergo a major overhaul and maintenance, while a unit of Afam IV & V
had been de-commissioned and scrapped; four were out due to blade
failure and two due to burnt generator transformer, among others.
Source: Punch
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