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Nigeria's power generation for the month of July is expected hit 5500MW if on-going repairs on gas supply pipelines are completed.
Speaking with an EU delegation on Thursday in Abuja, Chairman of Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Dr. Sam Amadi said a lot work has been done to contain the frequent vandalism of gas pipelines.
"Much of the vandalisms are in the gas side. The gas problem is getting better. We had meeting with the Group Executive Director of gas at NNPC and he told us of improvements coming up. We hope that by the end of July, with the repair work going on, we might be able to do maybe above 5,500mw.
“The assurance we have is the East-West Gas Pipeline is projected for completion sometime towards the end of 2016. The idea is that we should be able to do slightly above 6000mw. The problem is that it depends also on increase in capacity. If we get the NIPP plants in, we are looking that 4,700mw. If we add this to the distribution companies, we can go above 9,000mw. Right now, we don’t have enough gas to do above that.
“They are looking at 2016-2017. With the gas that will come from the new and existing pipelines, the operators think that we can get enough to get us the available capacity that we have, and the recoverable capacity that the generators would have”.
Culled from Daily Independent
Speaking with an EU delegation on Thursday in Abuja, Chairman of Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Dr. Sam Amadi said a lot work has been done to contain the frequent vandalism of gas pipelines.
"Much of the vandalisms are in the gas side. The gas problem is getting better. We had meeting with the Group Executive Director of gas at NNPC and he told us of improvements coming up. We hope that by the end of July, with the repair work going on, we might be able to do maybe above 5,500mw.
“The assurance we have is the East-West Gas Pipeline is projected for completion sometime towards the end of 2016. The idea is that we should be able to do slightly above 6000mw. The problem is that it depends also on increase in capacity. If we get the NIPP plants in, we are looking that 4,700mw. If we add this to the distribution companies, we can go above 9,000mw. Right now, we don’t have enough gas to do above that.
“They are looking at 2016-2017. With the gas that will come from the new and existing pipelines, the operators think that we can get enough to get us the available capacity that we have, and the recoverable capacity that the generators would have”.
Culled from Daily Independent
