Black out in Abuja, Lagos as Power grid collapses twice in two hours

Some parts of the Nation especially in Lagos and Abuja, exeperienced n Thursday after the power grid collapsed twice in two hours.

PUNCH reports that the grid, which is being managed by government-owned Transmission Company of Nigeria, has continued to suffer system collapse over the years amid a lack of spinning reserve that is meant to forestall such occurrences.

The TCN announced that a system disturbance occurred at about 12.34pm on Thursday, affecting some parts of the country.

“As at 1:10pm, supply was restored to
Abuja and most parts of the affected areas. The TCN is still working to
completely restore and stabilise the nation’s grid,” it said.

Ikeja Electric and Eko Electricity
Distribution Company, two of the nation’s distribution companies, had
earlier on Twitter informed their customers about the cause of the
outage in Lagos.

“Dear customer, the outage you’re
experiencing is due to a system collapse of the grid which occurred this
afternoon at 12.36hrs. All parts of IE’s network are affected. Efforts
are ongoing to restore the grid. Kindly bear with us,” Ikeja Electric
said.

The Disco, in another tweet two hours
later, said another system collapse was recorded at 2.15pm, adding that
restoration efforts were ongoing.

Total power generation in the country
stood at 4,236.3 megawatts as of 6am on Wednesday, according to latest
data from the Nigerian Electricity System Operator.

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