The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, says that the country now has the capacity to generate not less than 7,000 Megawatts (MW) of electricity.
Fashola, who was responding to questions on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja, also said that transmission chain had also developed capacity to transmit the same megawatts.
He said: “Today we have the capacity to generate over 7,000MW, we can transmit also over 7,000 MW but we cannot distribute more than 5,200MW now.
“So, if there is no distribution demand, you don’t load on your 7,000 because your supply is informed by your demand.
“So what we are actually doing is that some of the GENCOs that have a capacity to produce 100, control centre is telling them put only 60.
“So, that is how we are managing it, because of the real demand at final end based on insufficient distribution capacity,” he added.
The minister who said the country was well over the problem of electricity generation however noted that the challenge was the issue of distribution.
