{"id":4891,"date":"2021-07-08T11:01:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T11:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/?p=4891"},"modified":"2021-07-08T11:01:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T11:01:11","slug":"only-25-of-160-licensed-gencos-operating-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/2021\/07\/08\/only-25-of-160-licensed-gencos-operating-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 25 of 160 licensed GenCos operating in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr Joy Ogaji, Executive Secretary, Association of Power Generation Companies (APGC), says only 25 out of 160 GenCos licensed by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission ( NERC) are currently operating in Nigeria.<br>Ogaji made the disclosure during a panel session at the ongoing Nigeria Oil and Gas (NOG) Conference and Exhibition on Wednesday in Abuja.<br>She noted that data from the National Control Centre, Osogbo, showed that Nigeria\u2019s energy demand was about 28,000MW while the current available power was about 6,000MW.<br>\u201cNERC has issued 160 licences to power generation companies. Only 25 are operational currently.<br>\u201cThe other thermal stations are waiting on the sidelines and if they are actively involved, we can generate an additional 30,000MW.<br>\u201cThe 25 operational GenCos have an installed capacity of about 13,000MW,\u201d Ogaji said.<br>She, however, disclosed that current available capacity had dropped from about 9,000MW in 2020 to about 6,000MW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/only-25-of-160-licensed-gencos-operating-in-nigeria\/\">TO CONTINUE READING CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Joy Ogaji, Executive Secretary, Association of Power Generation Companies (APGC), says only 25 out of 160 GenCos licensed by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission ( NERC) are currently operating in Nigeria.Ogaji made the disclosure during a panel session at the ongoing Nigeria Oil and Gas (NOG) Conference and Exhibition on Wednesday in Abuja.She noted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,116],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4893,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891\/revisions\/4893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}