{"id":46482,"date":"2024-08-11T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigerias-electricity-generation-drops-to-3521mw\/"},"modified":"2024-08-11T07:00:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T07:00:33","slug":"nigerias-electricity-generation-drops-to-3521mw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigerias-electricity-generation-drops-to-3521mw\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s electricity generation drops to 3,521mw"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s electricity generation dropped to 3,521,37 megawatts on Saturday barely two weeks after reaching a year high of 5,105 megawatts on July 27.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to the latest 24-hour National grid performance data.<\/p>\n<p>The figure represents the electricity generated by the 22 power plants connected to the country\u2019s national grid.<\/p>\n<p>Egbin, with 450 megawatts, contributed the highest to the grid, while Sapele National Integrated Power Plant(Gas), and Geregu NIPP(Gas) recorded zero generation.<\/p>\n<p>The development comes after the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu recently said the country\u2019s electricity generation reached a three-year high of 5,105 megawatts.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that despite Nigeria\u2019s heavy investments in the power sector, the country has continued to struggle with 3000mw to 5000mw electricity generation for a population of over 200 million.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s electricity generation drops to 3,521mw<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s electricity generation dropped to 3,521,37 megawatts on Saturday barely two weeks after reaching a year high of 5,105 megawatts&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6500,15,901],"tags":[23566,17171,3875,2316,180,18,1505],"class_list":["post-46482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electricity","category-news","category-nigeria","tag-3521mw","tag-drops","tag-electricity","tag-generation","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}