Blackout: Shiroro, Sapele power plants shut
The nation’s electricity woes worsened
on Tuesday as two additional power generating plants were shut down,
bringing the total number of plants not generating any megawatts of
electricity to 10.
The two shut plants are Shiroro Power
Station in Niger State and Sapele II in Delta State, industry data
obtained by our correspondent showed.
Shiroro, whose capacity was put at
600MW, was said to have seen its unit 411G1 tripped on emergency
shutdown on the 86ES lockout relay; units 411G2 and 3 out for under
water repair work; and unit 411G4 out on maintenance.
The Sapele II, built under the National
Integrated Power Project, with its capacity put at 225MW, has four
units. The GT1 was shut down for maintenance, GT3 out due to work by the
Nigerian Gas Company at the gas station, while the GT2 and 4 units are
out as a result of gas constraints.
Total national power generation stood at
2,774.2MW on Tuesday, down from 3,657.5MW on March 31. Generation from
Egbin, the nation’s biggest power station, was limited to 415MW due to
gas constraints, down from 1,085MW on March 15.
Shell’s Afam VI power plant generated the highest megawatts of electricity at 418MW as of 6am, the data showed.
The slide in power generation has
worsened the blackout being experienced in many parts of the country as
many consumers complained of outages lasting for hours on end.
The PUNCH had on Friday
reported exclusively that eight of the nation’s power plants were
completely idle on Thursday, with significant reduction in generation
from others, including Egbin, which is located in Lagos.
The plants, which did not generate any
megawatts of electricity included Sapele, Delta State, whose installed
capacity was put at 240MW; Olorunsogo II in Ogun State, with a capacity
of 625MW; Rivers IPP (180MW) and Trans-Amadi (75MW), both in Rivers
State.
Others were Geregu I in Kogi; Afam IV & V in Rivers, and A.E.S and Asco, whose installed capacity were not given.
Sapele’s units were said to be shut due to gas constraints, tripping, maintenance and major overhaul, among other reasons.
The Rivers IPP’s unit GT1 was out due to
gas constraints, while Trans-Amadi’s GT1 and 4 units were out due to
line constraints; GT2 due to gas constraints and GT3 undergoing
maintenance.
According to the data, there was no
communication on A.E.S, while Asco’s unit GT1 was out due to a fire
outbreak. Olorunsogo’s units GT1 to 4 and ST2 were shut due to gas
constraints, and ST1 for maintenance.
Geregu’s three units were shut due to
outage and to enable them to undergo a major overhaul and maintenance,
while a unit of Afam IV & V had been de-commissioned and scrapped;
four were out due to blade failure and two due to burnt generator
transformer, among others.
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