Electricity Generation Companies (GenCos), said they released an average of 3.531 Megawatts-hour of electricity into the national grid on Wednesday.
This is contained in a daily energy report by the Advisory Power Team, Office of the Vice President, and made available to newsmen in Abuja on Thursday.
The report said that the electricity sent out by the GenCos was up by 163.15 megawatts from the figure released on Wednesday.
It however, said that 1,128.50 megawatts could not be generated due to unavailability of gas.
The report noted that 222.5 megawatts were also not generated due to unavailability of transmission infrastructure during the period.
Similarly, it said that 2,400.50 megawatts were not generated due to high frequency resulting from unavailability of distribution infrastructure.
According to the report, zero (0) megawatts was recorded as losses due to water management procedures.
The report revealed that the power sector lost an estimated over N1.8 billion on Wednesday due to insufficient gas supply, distribution and transmission infrastructure.
On sector reform and activities, it said that the dominant constraint for Wednesday was high frequency resulting from unavailability of distribution infrastructure.
The report said that the peak generation attained on Wednesday was 4,320 megawatts.
