The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has announced that the Nigerian power sector has hit the highest daily energy transmission.
The statement was posted on the official X handle on Tuesday.
It wrote, ”The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) is pleased to announce that the nation’s power sector has achieved a new peak generation for the year 2025, which was successfully transmitted.
”This new peak generation of 5,713.60 megawatts (MW) was recorded on Tuesday, March 2, 2025, at 21:30 hours,” stated TCN official handle on Tuesday.
”This surpasses the previous peak generation of 5,543.20MW achieved on February 14, 2025, by 170.40 MW. Although slightly lower than the all-time maximum peak of 5,801.60MW recorded on March 1, 2021, by 88MW, this achievement remains significant.”
Also, a new record for the maximum daily energy ever attained in the history of the electricity industry in Nigeria was also set on Monday, with a total of 125,542.06 megawatt-hours (MWh). This surpasses the previous record of 125,159.48MWh achieved on February 14, 2025, by 382.58MWh.
