Electricity Generation Companies comprising gas-fired and hydro stations said they released an average of 3,280 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, a copy which was obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Thursday.
The report said that the electricity sent out by the GenCos went up by 63.14 megawatts from the figure released on Thursday.
It, however, said that 2,238 megawatts could not be generated due to unavailability of gas.
The report noted that 112.5 megawatts were not generated due to the unavailability of transmission infrastructure during the period.
Similarly, it said that 2,447.5 megawatts were not generated due to high frequency resulting from the unavailability of distribution infrastructure.
The report said that the peak generation attained on Thursday was 4,411.7 megawatts.
