Ministry of Power, Works and
Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Wednesday announced that the Transmission
Company of Nigeria (TCN ) and the Generation Companies (GENCOS) were working to
restore the technical hitches recorded in the national transmission grid.
The incident, it explained,
required a shutdown of the pipeline supplying gas to Egbin 1,320MW; Olorunsogo
NIPP 676MW, Olorunsogo 338MW, Omotosho NIPP 450MW, Omotosho 338 MW and Paras
60MW power stations.
It said the sudden loss of
generation due to interruption in gas supply from the stations caused the
national transmission grid to trip off around 8:20 am on Tuesday.
It expressed regrets at the trip
off, given the sustained period of increasing production and distribution of
power since September 2017 to date.
The statement added that, “once
the national grid is restored, output from the hydroelectric power stations and
all other unaffected gas fired thermal power stations will be increased”.
This, it said, would minimise the
impact of loss of generation from the affected power stations.
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What a shame. Apart from looters who is not ashamed of being Nigerian?
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