Nigeria’s national grid has been collapsing repeatedly over the past few weeks, causing frequent blackouts and exposing the ongoing struggles within the country’s energy sector.
As Nigerians await full power restoration, the national grid has collapsed once again.
There are reports that the national grid collapsed on Tuesday, marking the 10th such incident since January 2024.
Collapse Of National Grid
Our correspondent confirmed that, as of 11 am on Thursday, the 22 power plants were only able to generate 2,323 megawatts of electricity, with generation dropping to 0.00MW.
The peak generation for the day was 3,743MW as of 10 am.
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The Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company reported a power outage at 11:29 am.
“Dear Esteemed Customer, please be informed that we experienced a system outage today, 7 November 2024, at 11:29 hrs, affecting supply within our network.
“Restoration of supply is ongoing in collaboration with our critical stakeholders. Kindly bear with us,” IKEDC said.
The Transmission Company of Nigeria has yet to provide an update on the incident, which marks the 11th of such occurrences in 2024.
