The national grid on Monday collapsed to zero megawatts (MW) at 10:51am on Monday, causing a nationwide outage.
The national electricity grid as of 10am on Monday had 3,712MW generated from 21 Generation Companies (GenCos) before it dropped to 0MW one hour after.
This was contained in an information from the System Operations, a section of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), that said only Afam IV was on the grid but with zero supply as of 12noon.
It said as of Sunday, the highest generation was 4,100MW while the lowest was 3,652MW with the frequency hovering between 49.04 Hertz (Hz) and 50.34Hz.
The national grid collapsed twice, in July and in August but was quickly restored and power supply improvement was sustained before the latest system collapse on Monday.
According to records, this is the seventh system collapse this year, much more than the three recorded last year.
Also in a notice to its customers, the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company PLC, EEDC, informed its “esteemed customers of a system collapse which occurred at 10:51am today, 26th September, 2022. This has resulted in the loss of supply currently being experienced across the network.
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“Due to this development, all our interface TCN stations are out of supply, and we are unable to provide service to our customers in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo States.
The statement by Emeka Ezeh, Head, Corporate Communications, said “We are on standby awaiting detailed information of the collapse and restoration of supply from the National Control Centre (NCC), Osogbo.’’
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