The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has assured Nigerians that efforts were in top gear to restore power supply.
The national electricity grid had collapsed in the wee hours of Thursday, the first of such collapse in the administration of President Bola Tinubu, leading to supply disruption by all the distribution companies (Discos) and plunging Nigerian homes and businesses into blackout.
However, TCN in a statement issued Thursday by its General Manager, Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, disclosed that the system collapse was caused by a fire incident that occurred on Kanji/Jebba 330kv line 2.
Mbah stated, “The TCN hereby notes that grid restoration nationwide is in progress and has reached advanced stages with power supply now available in the West, North Central, South, East, and a large portion of the Northern parts of the country.”
She added that the power supply restoration was sequel to the total grid collapse, which occurred at about 12.35 am on Thursday morning causing outage nationwide, after over 421 days of consistent grid stability.
Mbah added that in the course of the grid restoration, the process initially suffered a setback; saying this does not amount to another collapse.
She explained that in the course of any grid restoration process, challenges might be encountered.
According to her, This happened today (Thursday) while the grid restoration was in progress, but it was promptly addressed.
Mbah pointed out that the last total system collapse recorded was on 20th July 2022, and 13th September, 2023, which was a 421-days gap.
She said prior to yesterday’s collapse, the system had been stable in spite of the challenges posed by zero spinning reserve and lack of System Control and lack of adequate Data Acquisition (SCADA) essential to a strong and stable grid, among others.
