The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has revealed that the national electricity grid shut down six times in less than two weeks as shown by recent intelligence.
According to the generation statistics of the Nigeria Electricity System Operator (NESO), an arm of the TCN, the national grid collapsed six times between January 1 and January 8.
An analysis of the statistics showed that the country’s power generation crashed from 3,667.5 megawatts on January 1, 2018, to 5.0MW on January 2, which was the first system collapse in the year.
Informationng reports that the second grid collapse occurred on January 3, as power generation on that day was 51MW. This moved up to 2,660.1MW the following day.
But on January 5, the grid collapsed for the third time to 107MW.
Three other grid collapses were recorded on January 6, 7 and 8, as the country’s power generation dropped to 173MW, 164.2MW and 72MW, respectively.
