INCESSANT POWER SUPPLY IN NIGERIA AND THE NEED FOR THE DESIGN AND PRODUCTION OF 100,000MW POWER PLANT
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Date
2019-02
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International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research
Abstract
The present unreliable and erratic power supply is a pointer to the fact that there is a great need
for fault evaluation and reliability studies of electric power system in Nigeria. The recent
blackout in the country has grounded many activities and has destroyed many industrial
processes. Also, the power industries face a lot of problems. Some of the highest priority issues
being generation of sufficient power, urgent clearance of faults, adequate protection and increase
reliability of the system, that is, bringing a steady uninterrupted power supply to the consumers.
The Nigerian power problem resulted to incessant planned, forced and unplanned outages. In
addition, it has resulted to erratic and unreliable supply of electricity in the country. It has
reduced productivity and has increased unemployment rate in the country to over 40million (this
figure is over 70% of Nigerian youths. It has led many of the youths in the country to crime. It
has led many of the deaths of many innocent people in the country. Hence, an analytical method
is developed to assess the dynamic- reliability of the distribution system, as well as optimizes the
occurrence of faults along each of the individual consumer point in a feeder in order to improve
the performance of the system. This research publication therefore evaluates the occurrence of
faults which is about 856 occurrences during a period of 8 years and outages which range
between 1118 to 3785 hours per annum along the distribution lines, also the failure rates of each
of the feeders were analyzed in order to improve on the supply of electricity in the distribution
network. The reliability of the system which ranges between 8.57*10-12 to 9.548*10-5 were
analyzed; and fault clearing techniques were carried out. Efforts were made to adequately assess
the failure rates of the feeders which range between 0.003 and 0.001 and reliability of the
distribution system. Efforts were also made to improve the performance of the system. As a
result, it was possible to establish improvement techniques which ensure adequate and constant
supply of electricity to all the consumers for industrial growth and employment: a basic solution
to increasing crime rate in the country.
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Fault Evaluation, Improvement of Electric Power Distribution Network, Reliability, Occurrence of Faults, Failure Rates, Outages, Reliability, Fault Clearing, Improvement Techniques, Supply of Electricity, Productivity, Load Flow Analysis