Electricity Generation Companies (GenCos) comprising gas-fired and hydro stations said they could not generate 3,323 megawatts of electricity on Wednesday due to the unavailability of gas.
This information was made known in a daily energy report by the Advisory Power Team, office of the Vice President, a copy of which was obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday.
The report also noted that 0 megawatt of electricity was not generated due to the unavailability of transmission infrastructure during the period.
Similarly, it said that 1,319.8 megawatts were not generated due to high frequency resulting from the unavailability of distribution infrastructure.
The report, however, said that the GenCos released an average of 4,002 MegaWatts/Hour of electricity into the national grid on Wednesday.
It said that the electricity sent out by the GenCos was up by 90 68 megawatts from the 3,911 released on Tuesday.
The report revealed that the power sector lost an estimated N2,229 billion on Sunday due to insufficient gas supply, distribution, and transmission infrastructure.
On sector reform/activities, it said that the dominant constraint for Wednesday was the unavailability of gas.
The report said that the peak generation attained on Wednesday was 5,048.2 megawatts.
