The President of Nigeria Consumer Protection Network, Kunle Olubiyo has recently revealed that the national power grid might collapse if electricity generation continues to hits 6,000 megawatts.
As the highest quantum of electricity ever generated in Nigeria on its national grid was 5,802MW, which was happened on March 1, 2021, and was evacuated at a frequency of 50.09 hertz.
The Transmission Company of Nigeria had stated at the time that this quantum of electricity was transmitted to power distributors, adding that the figure was higher than the previous peak by 186.20MW.
He added, “TCN successfully transmitted an enhanced peak generation of 5,801.6MW at 9:30 pm on March 1, 2021. The peak generation was transmitted at a frequency of 50.09Hz. This value is higher than the 5,615.4MW recorded on February 28, 2021, by 186.20MW.”
Given that ever since, power generation on the grid had continued to fluctuate between 4,000MW and 5,000MW, despite the increasing demand for electricity by the over 200 million people in Nigeria.
On Friday, for instance, figures obtained from a source from the Federal Ministry of Power in Abuja showed that the quantum of electricity generated on the national grid was 4,962.7MW as of 6.00 am.
But amid calls for an increase in power generation, the NCPN president revealed that the national grid might collapse if it get up to 6,000MW of electricity from power generation companies.