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NDPHC working to improve generation and distribution infrastructure
- Power generation falls by 6.7%
- Gas constraints and load rejection to blame
The Managing Director Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) Chiedu Ugbo has said the NDPHC is working to improve generation and distribution infrastructure in the country. He made this known after receiving the Business Day 2020 Excellence in Public Service Award.
“The truth is that when we came in, we discovered that we had very huge generating capacity, but there was no dispatch, what is called evacuation, and we had to look inward”, Ugbo said. “We keep improving the capacity of the distribution companies to take these loads, which at the end of the day impacts the off-take in our power plant”, he added.
Data from the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has shown that the sector’s generation capacity dropped by 6.7% in one week. On Sunday 16th May, generation stood at 4,863.6MW and by Friday 22nd, it had dropped to 4,277.8MW. The drop in generation capacity is due to inadequate gas supply and load rejection by the Distribution Companies.(DisCos).