By Straightnews
Nigerians batter blackout as the National Power Grid has ‘scored’ a hattrick collapse in one week.
Power generation went off around 8:16 a.m. on Saturday, October 19. with many states reporting total blackouts.
The GenCos generate power and supply it to the national grid managed by the TCN. The transmission company transmits the power from the grid to its substations, which deliver to DisCos at a lower voltage and then to homes.
Recall that the grid tripped off on Monday and on Tuesday this week and then it was restored.
At 8 a.m, power generation was 3,042 megawatts and peaked at 3,968MW at 7 a.m. However, it dropped to 47MW as of 9 a.m.
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Data obtained from the Nigerian System Operator’s portal (niggrid.org), revealed that the grid recorded an unprecedented zero Megawatts (MW) as of 8:16 am today.
Data showed that all 22 generation companies (GenCos) are down as of the time of this report.
The grid had collapsed twice this week, marking the eighth grid disturbance in 2024.
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) had yet to confirm the incident at the time of this report, leaving Nigerians in the dark as to the reason behind this round of blackout.
On February 4, Nigeria experienced its first blackout of 2024 when the national grid collapsed at approximately 11:51 AM. The TCN-managed grid saw its capacity plummet from 2,407 megawatts to just 31MW by noon, and it completely shut down by 1 PM.
Nigerians batter blackout
Meanwhile, Omoyele Sowore, the 2023 Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC, )wrote ‘‘The Nigerian National Electricity Grid has experienced a distressing trifecta -HAT TRICK- with three dramatic collapses occurring in quick succession over the course of just two weeks.’’
@YeleSowore said ‘‘The NATIONAL GRID needs to be put on WATCHLIST the same way they’ve kept me on the Nigerian Immigration’s WATCHLIST! Useless people!’’
NEFERTITI in X ‘‘Peter Obi financed a trip to Egypt to study their National Electricity Grid. But charlatans laughed & made caricature of a very important gesture. Today, your national grid has collapsed more than 10x since Asiwaju’s inauguration.