Nigeria’s national grid collapses again
Nigeria’s electricity grid has once again thrown the country into darkness as the government operated system went down Monday afternoon.
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Nigeria, Abuja: Nigeria’s electricity grid has once again thrown the country into darkness as the government operated system went down Monday afternoon.
The system collapsed at about 1 pm cutting down electricity from 4,032.80 MW at about 12 pm to 43 MW at 1 pm and a meagre 303 MW at about 5 pm. Most distribution companies confirmed that their feeders were out as the over 22 electricity plants on the grid were all reading zero MW as of 5 pm, according to the data available on the Transmission Company of Nigeria’s System Network.
The national grid has failed several times this year alone, with about 138 overall collapses in the last decade. Data on grid collapse showed that in 2013, Nigeria recorded 24 power system collapses. The collapse incidents stood at 13 in 2014. In 2015, the grid collapsed 10 times; in 2016, 28 times, while 21 cases were recorded in 2017. Grid collapse cases in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 were 13, 11, four and four, respectively. It collapsed about 10 times between 2022 and present day.
Source: The Guardian Nigeria
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