Power restored hours after National Grid collapse

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has restored the national grid after its collapse on Monday.

Mrs Ndidi Mbah, TCN’s General Manager, Public Affairs, said in a statement in Abuja, that the national grid experienced “partial system disturbance” at about 10.51am, as a result of a sudden drop in system frequency, which created system instability.

She said that the restoration of the affected grid commenced immediately at 11.55am with Osogbo/Ihovbor, followed by Jebba/Osogbo, Kainji/Jebba, Benin/Onitsha, Shiroro/Kaduna, Shiroro/Katampe and Alaoji/Ikot-Ekpene.

Others are Lokoja/Gwagwalada, Odukpani/Ikot Ekpene, Benin/Omotosho, Oke-Aro/Ikeja west, Egbin/Oke-Aro and Kaduna/Kano.

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However, it was not until much later in the night that power was restored in parts of the Island area of Lagos State.

Mbah said that the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) regrets any inconveniences caused by the power outage as a result of the grid’s collapse.

She said NESI was committed to leveraging the concerted interventions instituted so far to enhance power supply reliability so that the issue of system disturbance will soon become outdated.

According to her, the National Control Centre would launch a full-scale investigation “to establish and ascertain the cause of the partial disturbance as this unwholesome event has resulted in aggregated generation loss.”