The national electricity grid
recorded another collapse on Friday, throwing most parts of the country into
darkness for nine hours.
Ndidi Mbah, spokesperson of the
Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), disclosed that the system collapse,
which is the 10th this year, happened around 2:01 p.m., but that the grid was
restored around 9:01 p.m.
The incident was said to have led
to power generation dropping to zero megawatts(MW). According to Mbah, the
cause is being investigated.
The grid suffered four total
collapses in January, and one each in February and April.
On June 30, a fire outbreak at a
power substation in Benin, Edo state, led to the total collapse of the national
grid, making it the ninth total collapse in the year.
The TCN had blamed the system
collapse on the massive load rejection by the DisCos.
But the DisCos blamed the
frequent collapses on poor protection equipment used for power transmission.
The Association of Nigerian
Electricity Distributors (ANED), the umbrella body of the DisCos, said the grid
has recorded over 100 partial and total transmission system collapses since the
privatisation of the sector in 2013.
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