QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF ACCESSIBLE ELECTRICITY IN THE NIGERIA
The power sector of the Nigeria is marked by its erratic nature, frequent interruption, total black out, insufficent power supply etc. Power outages for about 26 days per month which last eight hours per day experienced in Nigeria is relatively worse than the regional and world average records (Moyo, 2012). 9% sales lost due to these disruptions and an average of about 97.1% of ownership and operation of private generator by business firms located in Nigeria explain the severity of power problem in the nation (Ekpo, 2010, Moyo, 2012). Wastage challenges encountered between the generation and distribution points especially where installed capacities are far below transmitted plays pivotal role in the quantity and quality of accessible power in Nigeria (Babatunde and Shuaibu, 2009, Ubi, 2012) Kazeem, 2013 echoed that Nigeria has one of the highest transmission losses in the world with record of 35% loss. The recent daily electricity loss recorded is about 2,993.7 megawatt (MW) (Oketola, 2014). There has been several plans and projections to address the power insufficency in the country but unfortunately the nation has never met any of her past energy demand projections. Electric power transmission and distribution losses in Nigeria covering 1971 – 2010 showed that Nigeria had her highest loss value of 49.27% of the output in 1981 and the lowest in 2009 with value of 5.87% of the output. While the power transmission and distribution losses in kilowatt hour is 8.085 billion kWh in 2002 for maximum and a minimum value of 0.25 billion kWh in 1971 (IM, 2013). Different administrations in Nigeria had witnessed this inadequate power generating challenge (Uzoma, 2012). According...
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