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As Nigerians continued to grope in darkness for several hours, power generation capacity made a positive rebound of 3, 128.50MegaWatt on Friday.<\/p>\n

The Discos received zero MW allocation from the system operator, Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN on Thursday.<\/p>\n

According to the country\u2019s operational report, as at March 31, the peak power generation of March 30, stood at 3, 766.7megawatt, while its lowest generation was 3,029.3megawatt, foremost online newspaper, Vanguard, has reported.<\/p>

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The report continued that, the data from the Nigerian Systems Operations, NSO, Department of the TCN, website, www.nsong. org, indicated that power generation peaked at 3, 128.50MW as at 09:17 AM:00\u00a0 on Friday.<\/p>\n

The 3, 128.50MW which was distributed across the 11 electricity Distribution Companies. DISCOs are as follows: Ikeja \u2013 469.28MW; Abuja \u2013 359.78MW; Eko \u2013 344.14MW; Benin \u2013 281.57MW; Enugu \u2013 281.57MW; Ibadan \u2013 406.71MW; Jos \u2013 172.07MW; Kano \u2013 250.28MW; Kaduna \u2013 250.28MW; Port Harcourt \u2013 203.35MW and Yola \u2013 109.50MW.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Information Minister, Lai Mohammed last month apologised on behalf of the Federal Government, pleading to Nigerians that there would be improvement in power generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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