Nationwide power outage as grid crashes to zero MW, 7th in 2022

Once again, the national grid crashed to zero megawatts (MW) on Monday, causing a nationwide power outage.

“Dear Customer, we regret to inform you of a system collapse on the National grid at precisely 10:52 am today. We are working with our TCN partners to ascertain the cause of the collapse. Please bear with us,” a text message by Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) to customers read.

RELIABLESOURCENG.COM reports that the development is coming weeks after electricity consumers had enjoyed some respite from incessant grid collapse, including the forced collapse occasioned by recent strike action by the electricity workers union.

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The national electricity grid as of 10am on Monday had 3,712MW generated from 21 Generation Companies (GenCos) before it dropped to 0MW one hour after.

According to the information from the System Operations, only a section of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Afam IV, was on the grid but with zero supply as of 12noon.

The national grid collapsed twice, in July and in August but was quickly restored and power supply improvement was sustained before the latest system collapse on Monday.

According to records, this is the seventh system collapse this year, much more than the three recorded last year.