Mohammed Shosanya
The Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) recorded about 162 systems collapse since privatization 11 years ago,the Association of Power Generation Companies (APGC)
Its Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Joy Ogaji,disclosed on Thursday this at stakeholders meeting to review the options of the system and proffer solutions to the incessant grid collapses.
She lamented the huge financial loss recorded by businesses as well as individuals as a result of the recurring grid collapses and widespread outages usually occasioned by the grid disturbances.
“From the association data taken from 2013 till date the grid has collapsed 162 times,” Ms Ogaji said.
She said the level of frequency fluctuation and frequency crippling on the grid cannot be cured by a free governor.
“Before the grid code specified or the switch is up to like four. But we have done investigation and found out that sometimes the cripple is well over four, even up to ten, that is eating into somebody’s generation that would have fetched them money.
“So while I am not saying that spinning reserve is a solution, I believe that putting a spinning reserve and the free governor mode side by side can cure the volatility on the grid, because research shows that about hundreds of steel mills operate on our grid, and we know what steel mills does to frequency,” she added.
According to her, the association did a study and found out that 95 per cent of the time, from 2013 till date, the grid has not been in compliance with the grid code requirement of 50 hertz.
“It has always been out of frequency requirement of the grid,” she said.
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