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DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
Electric
power has been a major and vital instrument of development for any nation. It
is an ingredient for economic, social, education, technological, industrial and
commercial growth of any society. Electric energy is a form of energy that can
be generated in large quantity but cannot be stored except in a minute
quantity. This storage deficiency necessitates the need to ensure that the
level of generation is almost equivalent to the distributed or consumed power
in order to have maximum efficiency of the system. Over the years, electricity
supply in Akure has been unsatisfactory and epileptic which has in turn
affected the growth and development of the area particularly commercial and
business activities that requires electric power for their operation, hence the
need to identify the major causes of the problems bedeviling electricity supply
in the city. This research was carried out to evaluate the efficiency in
allocated power to the district by making a comparison between the available
capacity of the power network to the actual power being distributed to the
final consumer to actually ascertain where the major problem lies. The
available capacity at the supply end was evaluated and at the same time data
were collected from the feeders feeding the district to evaluate the consumed
power and make necessary comparison with the available power. The result shows
average efficiencies of 56.44%, 45.601%, 47.913%, 38.118% for the selected
readings in May, June, July and August respectively. These efficiencies are
assumed unsatisfactory. Although the supplied power is not enough to cater for
the demand of the city but yet the available power is still not effectively and
efficiently utilized thereby causing a great loss in the gas to power value
chain. Necessary recommendations were made to solve this protracting challenge.
Country : Nigeria
IRJIET, Volume 7, Issue 6, June 2023 pp. 173-177