The Federal government, on Monday, announced plans to increase electricity megawatts from 4000 to 6000 within the next three to six months, to improve power supply in the country.
The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, disclosed this while meeting with the Heads of Power Agencies and other stakeholders in the industry.
He said: “4000 megawatts is not acceptable and we have plans to increase the megawatts to a minimum of 6000mw to 6500mw within the next three to six months.
“What we are looking at is having an agreement to ramp up to a minimum of 6000 megawatts within the next three to six months.
“I know that the highest we ever generated was 5,700 megawatts about three years ago, that was specifically in November 2021.
“And these 5700 megawatts were also distributed. If we could achieve 5,700 at that time, I believe we still have infrastructure to generate between 6,000mw and 6,500mw,” he added
Adelabu said he has visited a number of generation companies and confirmed that they have the installed capacity to generate the 6000 megawatts.
According to him, a large percentage of the installed capacity is operational, but they are not available because of low or shortage in gas supply.
The minister added that the ministry of power and the agencies under it are working day and night to ensure that the situation is reversed within a very short time.
– NAN