Nigeria is one of the very few countries that operate national grids. Most large countries operate regional and embedded grids. National grids, especially in large countries, are an headache. When all generated power must first be fed into the national grid and transmitted through a single switch board to the rest of the country, it becomes a menace! And it is a means of measuring national stupidity!
Egbin thermal plant with 1250MW, located in Ikorodu, should serve Lagos.
Papalanto power with 225MW in Ogun State should serve Ogun State.
Omotoso power plant should serve Ondo alone.
Sapele & Ughelli should serve Delta and environs.
Azura should serve Edo.
Kainji Dam with 960MW should serve Niger & environs.
Leave Geregu to Kogi!
Calabar power plant with 150MW should serve Calabar.
…and so on.
You don’t have a power plant to serve your region? Then come together as a region to build yours! Don’t be lazy, Bozo! The EPSRA of 2013 was enacted for that purpose! NBET should be dissolved!
The Nigerian northeastern region doesn’t have a single power plant! They’re only interested in religious activities and terrorism! The northwest has none either; and 40% of Kano residents don’t even pay electricity bills! Only Jebba and Kainji produce power in the northcentral! No power produced in Benue, Adamawa, Taraba, Bauchi, Gombe, Kwara! Chai! Plateau produces 3MW and it is private! A private Dam constructed in 1903 and powers only Bukuru. No, they ain’t connected to the national grid! Lucky them; power is constant!
Eastern Nigeria kwa’nu? Anambra, Enugu, Imo and Ebonyi do NOT produce jack! Abia left that chat room with the advent of Geometrix power plant in Aba. Now, the Aba area is developing at a frenetic pace due to embedded generation…and well, with a governor that has sense.
National grid system is an excuse for laziness! If there must be a national grid, only EXCESS power should be fed in! A power plant must satisfy the load demand in its immediate area before feeding the excess into a national grid!
The Nigerian national grid has a total wheeling capacity of 7000MW. The highest it can wheel at a time is 5000MW. The Base load demand in Nigeria is 22,000MW (for household consumption alone). The Base load demand including for industrial use is 40,000MW!!! Yet, we believe a national grid of 5000MW working capacity would not collapse daily? Seriously?
The city of Houston alone generates 6000MW. The state of Texas generates 70,000MW! Texas has its own regional grid!
…you may now fill in the blank spaces and attempt the questions below:
1. Why should electricity be generated in Calabar, and transmitted to Kano?
2. Is it not better to have Kano and Calabar generate electricity independent of one another to feed their immediate environment?
3. Do you know that transmission losses due to the national grid are as high as 10% in Nigeria (up to 25% at times) while the global average is 1%?
The USA has 6,900 power plants, all independently owned! No national grid but 4 regional grids. Total daily generation in the USA is 1million MW. China Mainland has 8nos regional grids. They generate 1.7millionMW. These are developed countries with people that have sense! A silly country like Nigeria with just 23 miserable oversized generators,, wants to operate a national grid, with officials with brains smaller than those of cockroaches?
Honestly, we mumu for here, no be small!😭😭😭
Is Nigeria not operating a stupid model and deserves to be in the Guiness Book of World Records for national stupidity?
We play too much in this country, honestly!
#thinkAgain
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