The management of Afam Power Plc. has been compelled to cut generation from 560 megawatts (MW) to 240 MW as a result of distribution challenges.
The Managing Director of Afam Power Plc, Engineer Olumide Obafemi, who made the remarks on the sideline of a ministerial press visit to Afam Power Plc, in Oyigbo Local Government area of Rivers State, regretted that the company was generating power almost at a loss due to the prevailing circumstances. The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has often times raised the alarm that the inability of the Distribution Companies (DISCOs) to take electricity to consumers would worsen the liquidity crisis in the sector.
Engr. Obafemi, while calling on the DISCOs to expand their distribution capacity, said: “To evaluate generated electricity, ordinarily in this our environment, we don’t have a challenge. We have so many lines that go out…[but]…as you are generating it somebody must be consuming it. DISCOs are not taking and that is why most of the time we are not generating as much as we want. On gas supply we don’t have a problem. we have a gas flow station behind us here.”