Lagos — The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, said the country’s most recent national power grid collapse, which happened last week, came after 421 days of consistent grid stability.
The company disclosed this as it stated that it was working to restore power after nationwide blackouts.
Nigeria, during that week, witnessed a total grid collapse across the electricity network, causing an outage that led to total blackout across the country.
Power generation fell to zero in the early hours of the day of the collapse, but had risen to 1,341 megawatts, MW, by 1400 GMT, still well below the daily average of 4,100 MW, data from the TCN showed.
TCN General Manager, Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, who highlighted the 421 days of stable supply, said in a statement by the company: “TCN hereby notes that grid restoration nationwide is in progress and has reached advanced stages with power supply now available in the West, North Central, South, East, and a large portion of the Northern parts of the country.
“The power supply restoration is sequel to the total grid collapse, which occurred at about 12.35 am, this morning, causing outage nationwide, after over 421 days of consistent grid stability.”
“In the course of the grid restoration, the process initially suffered a setback; this does not amount to another collapse. In the course of any grid restoration process, challenges may be encountered. This happened today while the grid
restoration was in progress, but it was promptly addressed,” she added.
The power grid collapsed at least four times in 2022, which authorities blamed on technical problems.
Nigeria has 12,500 MW of installed capacity but produces about a quarter of that.
