The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has said it is pleased to announce that the nation’s power sector has achieved a new peak generation for the year 2025, which was successfully transmitted.
According to a statement signed by the management of the company, this was recorded on Tuesday, March 2, 2025, at 21:30 hours, with the new generation peak of 5,713.60 megawatts (MW), surpassing the previous peak generation of 5,543.20MW achieved on February 14, 2025, by 170.40 MW.
Although this new peak is lower than the all-time maximum peak generation of 5,801.60MW recorded on March 1, 2021, by 88MW, it remains a notable achievement, the company said
TCN added that a new record for the maximum daily energy ever attained in the history of the electricity industry in Nigeria was also set yesterday, 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 382.58 MWh.
