The Minister of Power, Prof Bart Nnaji, confirmed to our correspondent in a telephone interview on Wednesday that electricity generation had, indeed, dropped by 900MW due to gas supply challenges.
“Yes, power generation has dropped by about 900MW because of gas supply challenges. We are having serious gas supply challenges,” the minister said.
Nnaji had given a hint about the gas supply problem while announcing the shutdown of the Kainji Power Station on Friday. The station later resumed generation on Monday.
The minister had said, “It is regrettable that it (shutdown) occurred when there is a considerable reduction in national power supply as a result of shortage in gas supply to the thermal power stations.”
Nnaji had also disclosed that President Goodluck Jonathan was personally leading a new effort to draw up a far reaching and composite plan to end all the impediments to the quick realisation of electricity development in Nigeria, including gas shortage hitches.
Our correspondent gathered that both the government-owned and privately-owned power stations had been generating about 3,200MW of electricity since Monday against over 4,000MW they were earlier generating.
Ministry of Power officials, who asked not to be named, blamed the situation on shortage of gas and failure of some equipment at the plants.
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