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Regular electric power supply is essential to the rapid development of any society but power supply in Benin City area of Nigeria is erratic and problematic. The paper examines the various stages of power generation and some of the factors responsible for regular power outages in Benin City area of Edo state. These factors include: man-made fault, earth fault, over current fault, natural fault transient fault, planned outages and load shedding. The frequency of occurrence and duration of each of these factors were also examined and man-made fault was found to have the highest mean frequency of occurrence while load shedding was found to have the next highest mean frequency of occurrence followed by earth fault. However, transient fault was found to have the lowest mean frequency of occurrence. It was also discovered that the problems of power outages occurred also as a result of some other problems from generation and transmission sections of electric power generation in the Nation.
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Odior, A.O., Omadudu, C.M. Some factors responsible for erratic power supply in Benin City area of Edo state. Int J Syst Assur Eng Manag 4, 48–56 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13198-012-0126-5
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