October 18, (THEWILL) – The national grid system, operated by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), collapsed in the early hours of Saturday, marking the eight grid disturbance in 2024.
THEWILL reports that the grid collapse comes barely four days after recovering from two system failures on Monday and Tuesday respectively.
According to data obtained from the Nigerian System Operator’s portal (niggrid.org), the grid which recorded about 3,000 megawatts at about 8 am crashed to a mere 47MW as of 9am on Saturday.
The system, which has collapsed 8 times this year, has thrown the entire country into darkness as load off take by the distribution companies was zero megawatts at the time of filing this report.
Speaking in Lagos on Wednesday, at the unveiling of Hexing Livoltek, an electricity meter manufacturing company in Lekki, Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, said grid collapses are almost inevitable in Nigeria given the deplorable state of the country’s power infrastructure.
