The Nigerian Electricity Requlatory Commission (NERC), says stakeholders in the power sector are working assiduously to ensure that steady power supply is restored to the country.
Mr Sanusi Garba, the Chairman of NERC said this at a news conference in Abuja on Wednesday.
Garba said that gas supply had been restored to AFAM VI gas plant in Port Harcourt owned by shell and the Nigeria National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC).
” There is also another plant that has just been completed on the same site, we recently had discussion on how that can also be brought on board to cover the shortfall in generation.
“We had a meeting two days ago to see how NNPC and shell can expedite the repair of the gas plant so that it can ramp up to cover generation.
“We also have the Niger Delta power plant and the Federal Government has invested in 10 new plants out of which eight are operational.
“Most of them are affected by gas shortage because they have not contracted officially for gas.”
According to Garba, stakeholders in the last 24 hours have been discussing how the Nigerian gas marketing company can restore gas to those plants, so that they can also be operational.
“A lot of investment have been done in both generation and transmission to ensure steady power supply in the country.
Speaking on the grid collapse which occurred on Tuesday, Mr Musilu Oseni, the Vice Chairman, Market Competition and Rates, NERC said that the commission was concerned about the occurrence.
Oseni said that NERC had discussion with the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN ) and some generation companies to ascertain the cause of the problem.
According to him, the first collapse started from the 330 Kilo Volt Ampree (KVA) from the Benin axis of the network due to a trip-off caused by the conductor snap.
“Currently, Investigation is ongoing to unravel the cause of the trip-off and we are awaiting the final report, ” he said.
