Electricity Spinning Reserves Topple to Zero Megawatts

The Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry, NESI, on Tuesday, May 31 announced that it recorded zero megawatts spinning reserve.

According to an industry source, there was zero megawatts spinning reserve on Tuesday, thus making the grid extremely unstable.

“It was a difficult decision to take but there was no point building up a back-up when there was no energy to send out,”the source said.

In its data on daily summary system performance, NESI however said on Monday that the electricity market’s lowest generation was 2,482.90Mw while it sent out an average of 2,530Mw.

The market lost 3,667Mw to gas constraint, 136Mw to management constraint and 380Mw to water management constraint, which culminated in a financial loss of N2,008, 000, 000.