Again, nationwide darkness as national grid collapses
Nigeria’s grid has collapsed again for the sixth time in 2024, putting country into total darkness.
The collapse was said to have occurred at around 2.42am on Monday.
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) stated that four generation companies recorded zero MW generation from around 2am today.
According to TCN data, load allocation to electricity distribution companies (DisCos) was zero in seven out of the 11, exempting only Ikeja, Benin, Abuja and Ibadan Discos.
However, TCN had not confirmed the collapse of the national grid, but one DisCo confirmed the “loss of power supply from the national grid.”
Nigerian publications, quoting data from the Independent System Operator (ISO), a branch of the TCN, said only one generation company, Ibom Power, was operational during the collapse.
As of 8am on Monday, ISO data indicated that the grid was generating 266.50MW of electricity from Okpai, Geregu and Ibom power plants.
Jos DisCo confirmed the collapse in a statement, attributing the outage within its franchise states to the loss of power supply from the national grid.
Dr Friday Adakole Elijah, the company’s Head of Corporate Affairs, 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 in the early hours at about 2.42 [am] hours of today, Monday, 15th April 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.”
In March, the FGN Power Company of Nigeria installed its first mobile sub-station, one of 10 it is deploying across the country to address electricity shortfalls.
Under the aegis of the Presidential Power Initiative these sub-stations have been deployed to key sites to boost the country’s generation capacity by over 1,300MW.
The previous widespread power loss happened on 28 March.
That “system disturbance” occurred at 4.28pm, 28 March 2024, with full recovery achieved by 10pm that same day, TCN said at the time.
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