An Investigative Analysis on The Performance of The Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI)

Over the years, the quest for a stable power supply in Nigeria has become insatiable, due to epileptic nature of power availability and incessant outages in the country. This paper tends to dissect the power crisis in Nigeria with a view to narrowing down the malady in the industry to the various sub-sectors and proposing a suitable panacea. Whereas the quantum of energy being generated is abysmal for a country like Nigeria to start thinking of energy sufficiency, the transmission infrastructure is incommensurate with the capacity demand of power transmission. The distribution sub-sector on its part is; among others, bedeviled with revenue collection shortfalls, enough to impede the progress of the entire sector. With a conscious effort to expand the power generation base, by aggressively investing in Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT), the decentralization of the transmission Infrastructure and stringent monitoring of the distribution sub-sector for improved accountability and system reliability, the dream of energy sufficiency in the Country will substantially be actualized.