Nigeria’s electricity generation peaks to 92.7GWh – TCN
Nigeria’s electricity generation rose to its highest level in over two months on Friday, July 8, 2022 reaching a total generation of 92.71GWh from 90.69GWh recorded, Thursday.
Nigeria has recorded not less than five national grid collapses since this year.
The last time power generation companies (GenCos) recorded this much was on May 4, 2022, according to information from the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).
In the same vein, electricity supply also rallied significantly on Friday to 91.45GWh compared to 89.44GWh that was sent out the previous day.
Notably, 98.63% of the power generated on Friday was sent out to distribution companies.
Despite the increase, electricity generation and supply in Nigeria is still crippling below the minimum 105,000MWh of electricity required to record stable power supply in the country.
Energy generation peaked at 4,102.4MW on Friday, while off-peak generation was stated at 3,567.1MW. The highest frequency recorded during the day was 50.86Hz while the lowest was 59.12Hz.
