…Electricity Blackout spreads
Amid hike in electricity tariff, Nigeria has recorded another system collapse, an indication of one of the challenges consumers will contend with while being compelled to pay the new tariff.
The hike in tariff can not guarantee a stable supply of power until all the toothing problems confronting the transmission sector are fixed, said an industry operator
The incident occurred around 0242 hours today, Monday, thereby plunging the whole country into a total blackout.
As of 12.30 pm this Monday, electricity was yet to be restored to many parts of the country.
Some electricity distribution companies on Monday, reported a fresh collapse of the national grid, resulting in loss of power supply to their customers.
The grid experienced a fresh shutdown, and generation fell to 64.70 megawatts at 2:42 am on Monday, as confirmed by officials of some of the DisCos.
According to an earlier report, the latest data from the Independent System Operator showed that the grid was generating 266.50mw of electricity from Okpai, Geregu, and Ibom power.
Confirming the collapse in a statement, Jos DisCo said: “The current outage being experienced within our franchise States is a result of loss of power supply from the national grid. The loss of power supply from the national grid occurred in the early hours at about 0242 hours today, Monday, 15th April 2024, hence the loss of power supply on all our feeders.”
The company’s head of Corporate Affairs, Dr Friday Adakole Elijah, expressed hope that the grid will be restored for normal power supply to its esteemed customers.
The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC), also confirmed the collapse in a statement titled “NOTICE OF TOTAL SYSTEM COLLAPSE”.
“The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company PLC (EEDC) wishes to inform her esteemed customers of a total system collapse which occurred at 2:41 am today, 15th April 2024.
“This resulted in the loss of supply to all our interface TCN stations. Consequently, we were unable to provide service to our customers in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo States.
“However, the situation is gradually being resolved as we received the supply at Awada TCN station, Onitsha, at 7:30 am.
“We are in constant communication with the relevant authorities awaiting the full restoration of supply by the National Control Centre, NCC, Oshogbo. Thank you for your usual understanding and cooperation,”
A statement by Head, of Corporate Communications, EEDC, Emeka Ezeh said.
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) is yet to confirm the collapse as of press time.