Electricity sector assessment in Nigeria: the post-liberation era
AbstractTo improve the electricity services in Nigeria, the government has embarked on a total reform of the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry. The reform started with rehabilitating the government-owned electricity infrastructures in 1999 and implementing the 2010 Power Sector Reform. While some...
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| author | Olubayo Babatunde Elutunji Buraimoh Oluwatobi Tinuoye Clement Ayegbusi Innocent Davidson Desmond Eseoghene Ighravwe |
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| description | AbstractTo improve the electricity services in Nigeria, the government has embarked on a total reform of the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry. The reform started with rehabilitating the government-owned electricity infrastructures in 1999 and implementing the 2010 Power Sector Reform. While some stakeholders have seen these reforms benefit the industry, others have yet to see the positive impact of the reforms. Based on this premise, this work presents a synopsis of the Nigerian power sector’s past, present, and future. A review of its state of the art is explored and presented using documents and recent literature on the Nigerian electricity sector. Findings from the study show that infrastructural deficits and administrative lapses dominated the pre-liberation era. The privatization of electricity led to organizational structure and infrastructure improvements. The sector was unbundled into the GenCos, TransCo, Discos, and the regulatory bodies assigned well-defined tasks. The generation capacity has increased to 16,384 MW against the pre-liberation figure of approximately 6000 MW. As against the approximate figure of 10,000 km covered by the transmission infrastructure, an additional 10,000 km has been added to the existing transmission facilities. Although there have been improvements in service deliveries, there are still more grounds to cover to stabilize the Nigerian electricity sector. It is proposed that stakeholders harmonize the various policies and structural changes to make the necessary improvements. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6a51384c46574898a5237af948b163b52024-02-23T15:01:40ZengTaylor & Francis GroupCogent Engineering2331-19162023-12-0110110.1080/23311916.2022.2157536Electricity sector assessment in Nigeria: the post-liberation eraOlubayo Babatunde0Elutunji Buraimoh1Oluwatobi Tinuoye2Clement Ayegbusi3Innocent Davidson4Desmond Eseoghene Ighravwe5Department of Electrical Electronic Engineering, University of Lagos, Lagos, NigeriaDepartment of Electrical Power Engineering, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South AfricaDepartment of Electrical Electronic Engineering, University of Lagos, Lagos, NigeriaDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Clema Engineering Consultants, Lagos, NigeriaDepartment of Electrical Power Engineering, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South AfricaDepartment of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, Bells University of Technology, Ota, NigeriaAbstractTo improve the electricity services in Nigeria, the government has embarked on a total reform of the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry. The reform started with rehabilitating the government-owned electricity infrastructures in 1999 and implementing the 2010 Power Sector Reform. While some stakeholders have seen these reforms benefit the industry, others have yet to see the positive impact of the reforms. Based on this premise, this work presents a synopsis of the Nigerian power sector’s past, present, and future. A review of its state of the art is explored and presented using documents and recent literature on the Nigerian electricity sector. Findings from the study show that infrastructural deficits and administrative lapses dominated the pre-liberation era. The privatization of electricity led to organizational structure and infrastructure improvements. The sector was unbundled into the GenCos, TransCo, Discos, and the regulatory bodies assigned well-defined tasks. The generation capacity has increased to 16,384 MW against the pre-liberation figure of approximately 6000 MW. As against the approximate figure of 10,000 km covered by the transmission infrastructure, an additional 10,000 km has been added to the existing transmission facilities. Although there have been improvements in service deliveries, there are still more grounds to cover to stabilize the Nigerian electricity sector. It is proposed that stakeholders harmonize the various policies and structural changes to make the necessary improvements.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23311916.2022.2157536Electricity generation and supplydistributions companiesmarket regulationelectricity tariff |
| spellingShingle | Olubayo Babatunde Elutunji Buraimoh Oluwatobi Tinuoye Clement Ayegbusi Innocent Davidson Desmond Eseoghene Ighravwe Electricity sector assessment in Nigeria: the post-liberation era Cogent Engineering Electricity generation and supply distributions companies market regulation electricity tariff |
| title | Electricity sector assessment in Nigeria: the post-liberation era |
| title_full | Electricity sector assessment in Nigeria: the post-liberation era |
| title_fullStr | Electricity sector assessment in Nigeria: the post-liberation era |
| title_full_unstemmed | Electricity sector assessment in Nigeria: the post-liberation era |
| title_short | Electricity sector assessment in Nigeria: the post-liberation era |
| title_sort | electricity sector assessment in nigeria the post liberation era |
| topic | Electricity generation and supply distributions companies market regulation electricity tariff |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23311916.2022.2157536 |
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