Nigeria Again Suffers Nationwide Blackout Following Collapse Of National Grid The 227th Time in 14 Years
—EEDC announces partial restoration of power
Nigerians have been thrown into another nationwide power outage, as a result of the collapse of the national grid.
The system collapse, which occured at about 3:9pm on Saturday afternoon (July 6) is coming barely three months after similar incident occured, making it the fourth time the entire nation has been thrown into blackout in 2024 alone.
The Head, Corporate Communications, Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, Emeka Ezeh, who announced this to newsmen on Saturday, said the bulk electricity supply from the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) National Control Centre has consequently been disrupted.
He pointed out that the situation is the reason for the loss of power supply currently being experienced across the network.
Eze hinted, “Due to this development, all our interface TCN stations are out of supply, and we are unable to provide services to our customers in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo states.
“We are on standby awaiting detailed information of the collapse and restoration of supply from the National Control Centre (NCC), Osogbo”.
The national grid system, operated by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), has collapsed about 227 times in the last 14 years, and about four times in 2024 alone, resulting in nationwide blackout at each occurrence, pending when it is fixed and power restored and transmitted to the DISCOS, who resume distribution to the electricity consumers.
The latest collapse of the national grid is coming days after TCN announced that electricity generation declined to 4,723.30 megawatts peak on July 4, 2024, compared to 4800mw in May.
This is also coming amid the April 3 and July 1 2024 electricity tariff hikes for Band A customers, who are supposed to get between 20 to 24-hour power supply daily, as their electricity tariff rose from N66 per kilowatt-hour to N206.80 kWh.
Meanwhile, EEDC has announced partial restoration of power in the Zone.
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