Metro Nigeria: Blackout Looms As 2 Power Plants Shut Down

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Two of the nation’s power plants were shut down on Sunday, bringing the total number of idle plants to nine.

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The affected plants were II in Ogun State and Trans-Amadi in Rivers State, with their installed generation capacity put at 625 megawatts and 25MW, respectively.

The nation’s total electricity generation stood at 3,402.5MW as of 6am on Sunday, down from 3,940.5MW on Wednesday, according to industry data obtained by Punch correspondent.

Olorunsogo II, which was built under the National Integrated Power Project scheme, did not generate any megawatt of electricity because its units GT1, 2, 3 and 4 and ST2 were out due to gas constraints, and the ST1 out on maintenance. The plant produced 130.9MW on Wednesday.

Other plants that did not produce electricity on Sunday were Alaoji II with an installed capacity of 250MW; Ihovbor II, 337.5MW; Afam VI, 650MW; Rivers, 160MW; Afam IV & V, AES and ASCO, whose capacities were put at zero.
 
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