National Grid Goes Down Again Amid Ongoing Issues

National Grid Goes Down Again Amid Ongoing Issues

Parts of Nigeria were plunged into darkness on Monday following another collapse of the national electricity grid. An official from the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), who spoke to Punch on condition of anonymity, confirmed that this was a partial collapse and noted that power restoration is underway……. CONTINUE READING

This incident marks the fifth grid collapse in 2024.

Despite the recent setback, TCN has reported a significant decrease in the frequency of grid collapses over the past five years. Ndidi Mbah, the General Manager of Public Affairs at TCN, noted that from 2010 to April 2024, there were 227 grid collapses, both total and partial. However, recent years have seen improvement.

“Since 2020, we have recorded fourteen total and six partial grid disturbances, totaling twenty,” Mbah stated.

This represents a 76.47% decrease compared to the previous five-year period from 2015 to 2019, which saw sixty-four total and twenty-one partial disturbances.

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