Nigeria's chronic electricity shortage has been laid bare by new data showing that the country's power plants are operating at barely a third of their installed capacity, despite widespread blackouts affecting households and businesses across Africa's most populous nation.
According to the latest figures from the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), grid-connected power plants with a combined installed capacity of 13,625 megawatts generated an average of just 4,421 megawatt-hours per hour in January 2026, achieving a load facto
