Wednesday, 28 May 2014

Electricity supply worsens

The country's power supply has suffered another setback with at least five power transmission lines currently out of service across the country.

The faulty power transmission lines are located Port Harcourt, Benin and Lagos, reports Business Today.

The affected lines are Afam/Alaoji 132kV line 1 located in Port Harcourt; 330kV Sapele/Delta line in Benin, 132kV Akangba/Itire line 1 ;32kV Ikeja West-Ilupeju line 2 and 330kV Egbin/Aja line 4 all in Lagos.

The breakdown of these lines has resulted in power generation dropping to 3 674 megawatts from the peak of 4 105MW recorded in April.

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