An average of 62.6 percent of Nigerian households saw no improvement in power supply to their households between 2013 and 2015 despite privatization exercise carried out in the sector a power poll by NOI Polls Limited has revealed.
The polls which covered the first quarter of 2015 revealed that only 37.4 percent households surveyed said they saw some improvement.
These findings which was published by Daily Independent shows that the inherent issues in the nation’s power generation, transmission and distribution value chain have not improved.
This is coming after Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), said Nigeria was now generating 4,349.7 megawatts, achieved as a result of improved gas supply and the commissioned generating units at the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP) thermal power stations in Omotosho and Olorunsogo.
The power sector in Nigeria has been beset with numerous challenges manifesting in poor power supply to the final consumer. Since the privatization of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria Plc (PHCN) in 2013, Nigeria’s electricity generation capacity has declined from the peak generation of about 4,517.6 megawatts (MW) in December 2012 to about 3,670 MW in January 2014. This occurred in a period when the forecast for electricity generation was placed at 12,800MW.
NOI Polls result implies that for a period of two years of monitoring trends in the power sector, there has been no remarkable improvement in power supply, as the larger proportion of Nigerians did not see any improvement in power supply to their households.
In line with the findings, the South West zone recorded the worst power supply of 67 percent in the past 27 months when compared with other geopolitical zones in Nigeria. The South East zone recorded the highest average improvement 42 percent in power supply in the same 27 month period.
More findings revealed that over the same period, Nigerian households received an average daily cumulative power supply of between 5.4 – 7.1 hours per day.
Consequently, an average of 77.5 percent of Nigerians relied on the purchase and use of alternative sources of power, such as generators, inverters, and solar installations etc, which are typically more expensive to run than direct power supply from distribution companies (DISCOs).
Meanwhile the Ibadan distribution company has explained why millions of Nigerians are experiencing low power supply in the country in spite of the huge amount of money the Federal Government has spent to improve electricity supply.
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