Aurora Reroutes Baseload South as Heat Corridors Redraw Demand

Aurora Fusion Works has begun rerouting baseload capacity toward the southern corridor cities, where the registered migrant population — now past 124 million and still climbing — has thickened demand faster than any transmission plan anticipated. Fusion still supplies close to 30 percent of the reconnected grid, a share unchanged since the late-summer reactor sync, but the geography beneath that number is moving. "The percentage is stable; the load center is not," said Aurora chief executive Emeka Okonkwo, describing how a plant built to feed a coastal industrial belt now feeds resettlement districts fifty kilometers inland. In Lagos, grid operator Ngozi Bassey watched intake climb through October as arrivals settled around the ring road. "We didn't build for these neighborhoods because these neighborhoods weren't here," she said. The reroute buys months, not years; the corridors keep widening.