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The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) reported a six per cent summation successful powerfulness procreation for September 2025.
However, the energy procreation assemblage continued to conflict successful September 2025, operating beneath its existent capacity, according to the latest information released by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC).
Out of the full installed capableness of 13,625 megawatts (MW) from grid-connected powerfulness plants, lone 38 per cent, equivalent to astir 5,200 MW, was disposable for dispatch to the nationalist grid during the month.
While this represents a flimsy six per cent betterment implicit August 2025, it remains importantly beneath the procreation imaginable needed to conscionable the country’s energy demand.
NERC’s Operational Performance Factsheet attributed this persistent underperformance to debased Plant
Availability Factors (PAF), which bespeak that galore powerfulness stations could not run astatine afloat capacity. Factors specified arsenic ongoing attraction issues, state proviso shortages, and constraints wrong the transmission web continued to hamper effectual powerfulness generation. Despite these operational challenges, the utilisation complaint of the disposable capableness remained comparatively beardown astatine 78 per cent, suggesting that astir of the disposable powerfulness was actively dispatched to conscionable demand.
The study further underscored ongoing grid instability issues arsenic a important obstruction to reliable energy supply.
Grid frequence fluctuated irregularly betwixt 49.26 and 50.84 hertz (Hz), falling extracurricular the regulatory stableness scope of 49.75 Hz to 50.25 Hz for overmuch of the month. Similarly, grid voltage levels averaged 304.63 and 347.80 kilovolts (kV), often deviating beyond the recommended voltage set of 313.50 kV to 346.50 kV. According to NERC, the grid managed to support unchangeable frequence lone 48 per cent of the clip successful September, highlighting the transmission network’s fragile information and its inability to consistently enactment the voltage and frequence levels indispensable for dependable powerfulness delivery.
The apical 10 powerfulness stations generated the bulk of the country’s energy successful September, which collectively accounted for 81 per cent of the full output.
Zungeru Hydro Power Plant achieved a 100 per cent availability factor, generating 355 megawatt-hours per hr (MWh/h) astatine a 51 per cent load factor. Egbin Thermal Power Plant, Nigeria’s largest thermal facility, recorded 5,464 MWh/h procreation with an awesome 90 per cent load factor, contempt moving astatine conscionable 46 per cent of its installed capacity. Hydropower plants astatine Kainji and Jebba besides demonstrated robust show with load factors of 91 per cent and 73 per cent, respectively.
However, the show spread was stark for respective different grid-connected plants, including Alaoji, Rivers, Ibom Power, and Omoku, which reported zero procreation output passim the month. This underscores continuing inefficiencies and uneven powerfulness proviso organisation crossed regions wrong Nigeria’s nationalist grid.
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