Jonathan Increases Electricity Supply by 1,000mw?

The Presidential Task Force on Power (PTFP) has stated that an additional 1,000-megawatts have been added to Nigeria ’s electricity supply since President Goodluck Jonathan assumed power less than a year ago.
In its progress report released Monday, Chairman of the Communication Committee of the task force, Mr. Abimbola Agboluaje, also stated that due to better management of power supply, only one system collapse had been so far recorded in 2011 as opposed to three or four per month in the preceding years.

He noted that Jonathan’s administration has successfully prevented wild fluctuation in power supply as supply had been stabilised at 3, 800 megawatts, describing this figure as the highest ever in the industry.
The PTFP spokesman disclosed that the administration was fast-tracking delivery from National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP).
“One of the projects, at Olorunsogo, now contributes 113 megawatts to the national grid,” he said.
“New capacity of 690 is expected by December 2011 and a total of additional 1,000 megawatts and 2967 megawatts are expected by December 2012 and December 2013 respectively. Hence, the NIPP (projects) are expected to have delivered a total of 4770 megawatts to generation capacity by December 2013,” he added.

Agboluaje said about 3, 000 distribution transformers and associated power equipment nationwide had been installed, adding that some Nigerians are enjoying more hours of power supply because of the rehabilitation and recovery of existing generation plants.
He assured that more households and businesses would benefit from the increased generation and enjoy more hours of electricity as deficiencies in the distribution network were being progressively eliminated.

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