Nigeria’s national grid has collapsed again, News About Nigeria reports.
This is the third time this week the grid is collapsing, and eighth time this year, plunging the nation into total blackout.
Reports by the National System Operator, an arm of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, showed grid supply was 3,041.72MW as of 8 am. It dropped significantly to 47MW by 9 am with only Azura-Edo IPP on the grid.
It also showed that the grid on Friday recorded a peak supply of 4,807.2MW with 4,011.27MW as the lowest supply.
In a statement on Saturday, the TCN confirmed that seven of the nation’s eleven electricity distribution companies had zero load allocation.
Only Benin DisCo (70 MW), Ibadan DisCo (60 MW), Ikeja DisCo (30 MW) and Eko DisCo (20 MW) had minimal supply as of 10.16 am.
Recall that on Friday, the Transmission Company of Nigeria announced that two towers along its 330kV Shiroro–Kaduna transmission lines one and two have been vandalized, damaging parts of both transmission lines.
It stated that arrangements were in top gear to deploy the newly procured emergency restoration system to the site, pending the reconstruction of the damaged towers.
