The entire country has once again been thrown into darkness after the national grid operated by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) from Osogbo in Osun State collapsed.
The incident occurred in the early hours of today, Thursday, September 14 resulting in transmission plummeting to a meagre 273 megawatts of electricity coming from just 2 out of the over 27 electricity generation stations.
This comes barely a week after TCN, rolled out the drums to celebrate a questionable 400 days of grid stability.
According to The Guardian, a number of Distribution Companies confirmed that the grid went down at 00:41am, disclosing that most of their feeders are out.
As of 4:00a.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.
By 1:00am midnight, the total power on the grid was 35MW, indicating that the country experienced a total collapse.
The grid went to 193MW at about 3:00am before climbing to 273MW.
The TCN has not responded to inquiries by made by the newspaper correspondent about the development.
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