The Transmission Corporate of Nigeria has disclosed that the public’s energy past clash 5,713.60 megawatts on Tuesday, the easiest since 4 years in the past.
In a observation on Tuesday, the TCN introduced that the ability sector had completed a unutilized top past for the pace 2025, which was once effectively transmitted.
It said that the feat was once recorded on Tuesday, surpassing the 5.543MW recorded on February 14.
“This was recorded on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, at 21:30 hours, with the new generation peak of 5,713.60 megawatts (MW), surpassing the previous peak generation of 5,543.20MW achieved on February 14, 2025, by 170.40 MW,” the TCN said.
It clarified that even though this unutilized top is 88MW less than the all time most top past of five,801.60MW recorded on March 1, 2021, it extra a important success.
It added that the utmost day by day power additionally rose to 125,542.06 megawatt-hours, up from 125,159.48MWh completed closing generation.
“Furthermore, a new record for the maximum daily energy ever attained in the history of the electricity industry in Nigeria was also set yesterday, with a total of 125,542.06 megawatt-hours (MWh). This surpasses the previous record of 125,159.48MWh achieved on February 14, 2025, by 382.58 MWh,” the observation added.
The PUNCH stories that the Minister of Energy, Adebayo Adelabu, promised Nigerians that energy past would be on one?s feet to six,000MW by way of December 2024.
Alternatively, this might now not be completed because of vandalism, grid collapses, and broke energy infrastructure.
On the occasion, over 50 in line with cent of Nigerians inadequency get right of entry to to electrical energy.