The national grid system, operated by the Transmission
Company of Nigeria (TCN), collapsed in the early hours of Thursday, throwing
the entire country into blackout.
LEADERSHIP checks on the national grid performance showed
power generation dropped to a meagre 48.50 megawatts at 7.00am on Thursday,
coming from two out of the over 27 electricity generation plants.
This comes barely a week after TCN had rolled out the drum
to celebrate a questionable 400 days of uninterrupted grid stability.
A number of Distribution Companies confirmed that the
national grid went down at 00:41am, disclosing that most of their feeders were
out.
As of 7:00am on Thursday, two generating plants were on the
grid – Afam VI had 1.60MW while Ibom Power had 46.90MW. All other companies on
the grid had zero generation.
At about 1am midnight, the total power on the national grid
was 35MW, indicating that the country experienced a total collapse.
The grid went to 193MW at about 3am before climbing to
273MW. By 6.00am, the power on the grid had risen to 798.50MW, before
plummeting to 48.50MW as at 7.00am.
The TCN was yet to respond to inquiries by LEADERSHIP about
the national grid collapse as at 9am on Thursday.
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