As Nigerians continue to groan over incessant cut in power supply, the minister of power, Adebayor Adelabu said the government has plans to boost electricity supply to 6000 megawatts in the next months.
Nigeria’s current power situation has reached a critical level with the power generating companies churning out a paltry 4,000 megawatts for a population of about 200 million people.
“4000 megawatts is not acceptable and we have plans to increase the megawatts to a minimum of 6000 to 6500 within the next three to six months,” Adelabu said.
“What we are looking at is having an agreement to ramp up to a minimum of 6000 megawatts within the next three to six months.
“I know that the highest we ever generated was 5,700 megawatts about three years ago, that was specifically in Nov. 2021.
“And these 5700 megawatts were also distributed. If we could achieve 5,700 at that time, I believe we still have infrastructure to generate between 6,000 and 6,500.”
He submitted that the GENCOs has the capacity to generate 6,000 megawatts, but were unable to deliver because of low gas supply. He assured that government and its agencies are working overtime to end the endemic power failures in the country.
