The National Electricity power grid collapsed for the 7th time in 2022 today, Wednesday.
Reports reaching our newsroom say that the grid crashed to zero megawatts today after a fault thereby throwing the entire country into total blackout.
As reported by the Eko Electricity Distribution Company, the grid went down at about 11:27 am earlier today.
EKDC said: “Dear customers, we regret to inform you of a system collapse on the national grid at precisely 11:27 am today, Wednesday, July 20. We are in talks with the Transmission Company of Nigeria to ascertain the cause of the collapse and a possible restoration timeline.
“We will keep you updated on the situation,” the Disco company announced this on its social media page.
With the latest development, Nigerians will again suffer major blackouts across states as usual until the grid is fixed.
A review of the 2022 national power performance shows that the power grid collapsed twice in March and twice again in April this year.
The power generation on the system had continued to develop faults due to various concerns such as gas constraints, water management challenges, and gas pipeline vandalism, among others.
In the first quarter of the year, it was reported that the quantum of electricity on the grid crashed from over 3,000MW.
On the 8th of April, 2022, it dropped to as low as 10MW around 21.00 hours.
The review further revealed that another collapse of the grid occurred on April 9, 2022, as the nation’s power system collapsed to 33MW around 01.00 hours after it had earlier posted a peak generation of 3,281.50MW at 00.00 hours the same day.
The March incident happened within a space of two days, a development that made the Federal Government summon a meeting of stakeholders to address the issue.