Nigeria’s national grid collapses again, electricity drops to 42.7WM
By Kingsley Jeremiah, Abuja
19 September 2023 |
1:19 pm
Nigeria electricity has collapsed again, as power generation dropped from a peak of 3,594.60 megawatts (MW) at about 1:00a.m. at midnight to a meagre 42.7MW at the point of writing this report. Only Delta Power plant was active on the grid with 41.00MW as at 12 noon today while Afam had 1.7MW . This comes…

Electric Power grid
Nigeria electricity has collapsed again, as power generation dropped from a peak of 3,594.60 megawatts (MW) at about 1:00a.m. at midnight to a meagre 42.7MW at the point of writing this report.
Only Delta Power plant was active on the grid with 41.00MW as at 12 noon today while Afam had 1.7MW .
This comes barely five days after the grid collapsed twice within a space of more than 12 hours leaving the nation in total darkness.
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