Electricity Generation Companies (GenCos), comprising of gas-fired and hydro stations, said they released an average of 3,396 Megawatts-hour of electricity into the national grid on Thursday.
This is contained in a daily energy report by the Advisory Power Team, Office of the Vice President, and made availablein Abuja on Friday.
The report said that the electricity sent out by the GenCos was down by 134.46 megawatts from the figure released on Thursday.
It however, said that 1,296.50 megawatts could not be generated due to unavailability of gas.
The report noted that 112.5 megawatts were also not generated due to unavailability of transmission infrastructure during the period.
Similarly, it said that 2,521.40 megawatts were not generated due to high frequency resulting from unavailability of distribution infrastructure.
According to the report, zero (0) megawatts was recorded as losses due to water management procedures.
The report revealed that the power sector lost over an estimated N1.9 billion on Thursday due to insufficient gas supply, distribution and transmission infrastructure.
On sector reform and activities, it said that the dominant constraint for Thursday was high frequency resulting from unavailability of distribution infrastructure.
The report said that the peak generation attained on Thursday was 4,246 megawatts.
