The national grid has collapsed for the second time in three days, leading to blackouts in several parts of the country.
A check on the Nigerian System Operator’s portal (niggrid.org), showed that power generation dropped to zero megawatts at 11:30 a.m., affecting generation companies across the country.
Some electricity distribution companies corroborated this on their social media platforms.
“Please be informed that we experienced a system outage today 07 November 2024 at 11:29Hrs affecting supply within our network,” the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) serving parts of Lagos wrote on X.
“Restoration of supply is ongoing in collaboration with our critical stakeholders.
Kindly bear with us.”
The Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDP) also informed its customers of the “potential system failure”.
“Kindly be informed that at precisely 11.29 hours today, 7th November 2024, we experienced a simultaneous loss of supply across our network,” EKEDP said.
“A potential system failure or collapse is suspected. We are currently working with our partners as we hope for speedy restoration of the grid.”
The Jos Electricity Distribution Company said, “The current outage being experienced within our franchise States is a result of loss of power supply from the national grid.
“The loss of power supply from the national grid occurred this morning at about 1128 hours of today, Thursday, 7th November 2024, hence the loss of power supply on all our feeders. We hope to restore normal power supply to our esteemed customers as soon as the grid supply is restored back to normalcy.”
‘Lines and Generators Trippings’Although the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) is yet to comment on the most recent grid disturbance, Thursday’s development adds to the growing cases of grid collapses in the country.
On Tuesday, several parts of Nigeria were thrown into blackouts after the system experienced a collapse. Millions of homes were without power and waiting for the full restoration of the system.
The TCN blamed that incident on “a series of lines and generators trippings that caused instability of the grid and, consequently, the partial disturbance of the system.
“The data from the National Control Centre (NCC) revealed that a part of the grid was not affected by the bulk power disruption”.
In the wake of the incessant grid collapses the Federal Government blamed poor maintenance culture, and old and inadequate equipment among others for the issue.
It will be recalled that Power Minister, Adebayo Adelabu recently attributed the incessant power collapse to sabotage of the system.
This is just as he advocates for a decentralization of the power transmission and generation system of the country.
Nigeria has been battling with power failures such that the optimum it has generated has not gone beyond 5MW while the country always experience collapse anytime the generation climbs over 5mw.
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He recently constituted a committee to investigate the incessant cause of the frequent grid collapse and the report was submitted early this week.
Over centralization of infrastructures like Power generation ,distribution and transmission and highway construction,Aviation,Education,Policing among others has been the bane of the country as a result of which growth and development has been retarded.
Channels TV with Agency reports
