DANGOTE/PENGASSAN: Darkness looms as electricity generation drops

By Udeme Akpan, Victor Ahiuma-Young, Yinka Kolawole, Obas Esiedesa & Ediri Ejoh

Nigerians person been thrown into acheronian arsenic the onslaught embarked upon by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, implicit disagreement with Dangote refinery has compelled organisation companies, DisCos, to prosecute successful load shedding nationwide.

Electricity procreation crashed beneath 3,500MW arsenic astatine 6:00am yesterday, according to information obtained from the Nigerian Independent System Operator, NISO.

The load shedding came arsenic some parties successful the feud continued their combat yesterday, with Dangote refinery accusing PENGASSAN and its ally, the Trade Union Congress, TUC, of being chiefly funny successful the check-off dues of its members, alternatively than their welfare, portion the unions said absorption of the refinery was not bigger than the laws of the land.

Sources astatine the DisCos, who spoke to Vanguard, said the assemblage had go much unstable than earlier owed to the constricted measurement of state supplied to the GenCos and transmitted to the DisCos by the Transmission Companies, TCN.

Another root progressive successful the procreation who confirmed the development, said: “It looks much similar an economical sabotage. We person ne'er enjoyed our concern arsenic investors. The challenges support sending shocking waves of regret to america daily. ‘’My investments person gone down and mates with the lingering indebtedness that we support talking and hoping to person to enactment up investment. Honestly, I person not experienced this precocious level of lack of enactment successful the nation’s system before.”

NISO warns of grid illness arsenic thermal stations look shutdown

Also yesterday, the Nigerian Independent System Operator, NISO, raised alarm that the ongoing quality betwixt Dangote Refinery and PENGASSAN could endanger the stableness of the nationalist powerfulness grid.
In a statement, NISO explained that gas-fired thermal powerfulness stations, which proviso the bulk of the country’s electricity, were astatine risk, pursuing the onslaught declared by PENGASSAN.

“NISO wishes to gully attraction to the imaginable implications of this enactment connected the nation’s powerfulness sector. The nationalist grid relies heavy connected gas-fired generation, and immoderate sustained disruption successful state proviso would constrain procreation capacity, impact strategy operations, and undermine the stableness and reliability of energy proviso crossed the country.

“While NISO is considering measures to mitigate full grid collapse, we impulse each parties progressive to clasp dialog and lawful mechanisms of quality solution successful the wide involvement of the system and the good being of Nigerians astatine large.

“We reaffirm our committedness to ensuring a unafraid and reliable cognition of the nationalist grid and volition proceed to enactment wider efforts aimed astatine safeguarding vigor security,’’ the authorities read.

The interest by NISO came soon aft the CEO of Association of Power Generation Companies; Dr Joy Ogaji, confirmed that thermal powerfulness procreation companies person received notification from the Nigerian Gas Infrastructure Company, NGIC, to unopen down the plants.

Impasse sends incorrect awesome to imaginable investors – MAN

Reacting to the development, the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, warned that the existent impasse betwixt Dangote Refinery and PENGASSAN could nonstop the incorrect awesome to imaginable investors.

Director General of MAN, Segun Ajayi-Kadir, who raised the alarm astatine a media briefing connected the forthcoming 53rd Annual General Meeting, AGM, of the relation yesterday successful Lagos, said: “The awesome we are sending to the planetary assemblage is rather unfortunate.

“If a institution arsenic large arsenic Dangote Refinery is being dealt with this way, with 1 occupation aft the different – by regulatory agencies, motortruck drivers, and present PENGASSAN, for an concern of $20 billion, that is mind-boggling and it’s thing we shouldn’t let to fester.

“How would anyone who sees what has been done to Dangote Refinery privation to travel into this state and put big?” Ajayi-Kadir advised the authorities to measurement successful and guarantee that the regularisation of instrumentality prevailed.
“There is simply a labour contented you person with an organisation, woody with it. There are processes of law, but you are shutting down the state conscionable due to the fact that you person a disagreement.

“We are having a concern wherever companies that trust connected state won’t beryllium capable to person gas. And the implications are precise glaring. Factories volition not beryllium ...