The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has stated that the country currently has 2,000 megawatts of electricity that is not being utilised as a result of inadequate distribution infrastructure.
Fashola said this at the January 2018 edition of the monthly power sector operators’s meeting in Lafia, Nasarawa.
The Minister explained that the power was not being utilized because manufacturers had not shown interest in making use of it.
He said: “I will like to start this my remarks by highlighting the progress and milestones on our journey for incremental power which reassure us that we are on the right path and inspire us to continue with more belief.
“Those milestones are represented by: generated power has gone up to 7,000MW in 2017 from 3,000MW in May 2015, transmission capacity at 6,900MW in 2017 from about 5,000MW in May 2015. Peak distribution now averaging 5,000MW in 2017 from 2,690MW in 2015.
“We are also putting together a policy position to help expand the distribution network of the Discos and use this to distribute the 2,000MW that is currently available but cannot be distributed.
“I also use the opportunity to call out to manufacturers to let us know where they are, how much power they need, and how we can connect you because we have 2000MW of undistributed power,” Fashola stated.
