Nigeria has suffered its second national power grid collapse on Monday for the second time twenty-six days after a similar occurrence last month.
The PUNCH reports that the worsening blackout, which affected households and businesses in parts of the country was due to the collapse that occurred around 1:00pm.
Recall that the Transmission Company of Nigeria had estimated that a total of 611 megawatts at two power stations was lost during the last collapse suffered on July 28, 2021.
WuzupNigeria had also reported that residents in some parts of Lagos, Ogun, Kaduna, Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara states were thrown into darkness after the national grid collapsed in May.
However, today’s collapse was confirmed by two of the electricity distribution companies in the country.
Eko Electricity Distribution Company, in a message to its customers on its Facebook page, said, “We regret to inform you of a system collapse on the national grid that’s causing outages across our network.
“We are working with our TCN partners to restore supply as soon as possible. Please bear with us.”
Kaduna Electric said, “We sincerely apologise for the power outage in our franchise states which is due to a system collapse from the national grid. Supply shall be restored as soon as the grid is back up.
“We regret any inconvenience this may cause all our customers.”
The grid, which is being managed by government-owned TCN, has continued to suffer system collapse over the years amid a lack of spinning reserve that is meant to forestall such occurrences.
Spinning reserve is the generation capacity that is online but unloaded and that can respond within 10 minutes to compensate for generation or transmission outages.
