Joseph Bakare
There are reported cases of power outage in some areas of the country after the national grid system, operated by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) from Osogbo in Osun State reportedly collapsed.
The grid went down to 273 megawatts of electricity coming from two out of the over 27 electricity generation.
This comes barely a week after TCN, rolled out the drum to celebrate a questionable 400 days of grid stability.
The grid went down at 00:41 AM, putting some Distribution Companies feeders out.
As of 4:00 a.m. on Thursday, five generating plants were on the grid. Afam VI had 0.70MW, Dadinkowa was generating 0.00MW, Ibom Power had 32.90MW, Jebba had 240MW and Olorunsogo was on the grid with zero generation.
At about 1AM midnight, the total power on the grid was 35MW, indicating that the country experienced a total collapse.
The grid went to 193MW at about 3AM before climbing to 273MW.
