Nigeria’s electricity grid collapses again

By Kingsley Jeremiah, Abuja

11 December 2024 | 1:53 pm

Nigeria has once again been plunged into nationwide darkness as the electricity grid collapsed, dropping from about 3,000 megawatts around at 1:00 pm to zero megawatts by 2:00 pm. The grid, managed by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), remains one of the weakest links in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI). The TCN is…

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Nigeria has once again been plunged into nationwide darkness as the electricity grid collapsed, dropping from about 3,000 megawatts around at 1:00 pm to zero megawatts by 2:00 pm.

The grid, managed by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), remains one of the weakest links in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI).

The TCN is the only government-managed entity in the power sector, raising persistent concerns about its efficiency and reliability.

A check by The Guardian on the System Operator platform revealed that all 19 power generation plants were offline, leaving the grid completely out of service.

In a public notice, the Jos Electricity Distribution Company (DisCo) confirmed the outage, attributing it to a loss of power supply from the national grid.

Head of Corporate Communications at Jos DisCo, Dr. Friday Adakole Elijah, stated that the grid failure occurred at approximately 1:33 pm on Wednesday.

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