Just in: Another nationwide blackout as grid collapses again

Just in: Another nationwide blackout as grid collapses again 

The national grid has collapsed again, plunging the nation into another round of total blackout.

Various electricity distribution companies (DisCos) confirmed the grid collapse on Tuesday in different message sent to their customers.

Newstrends also discovered on the official handle of the Nigeria National Grid on X a report stating, “BREAKING: National Grid suffers another setback. Restoration soon!” @NationalGridNg.

Ikeja DisCo in an address to its customers, stated, “Please be informed that we experienced another system outage today 15/10/24 @ 09:17hrs affecting supply within our network.

“Restoration of supply is ongoing in collaboration with our critical stakeholders. Kindly bear with us.”

Eko DisCo also sent a similar message saying, “Dear Valued Customer,

“Kindly be informed there was a system collapse at 09:17hrs which has resulted in a loss of power supply across our network.

“We are currently working with our partners as we hope for speedy restoration of the grid. We will keep you updated as soon as the power supply is restored. Kindly bear with us.”

Spokesperson for the Transmission Company of Nigeria, Ndidi Mbah, said it was due to a ‘partial disturbance’.

“This follows a series of line and generator trippings that caused instability in the grid and, consequently, the partial disturbance of the system.”

As of 2:45pm, hourly generation readings from power generation companies such as Afam IV & V showed 0 MW, Afam VI. 0 MW, Azura-EDO 0 MW, Dadinkowa. 0 MW, Delta 0 MW, Egbin 0 MW, Geregu 0 MW, Geregu-NIPP. 0 MW, Ibom-Power. 0 MW, Jebba 0 MW, Kainji 0 MW, Odukpani. 0 MW, Okpai. 0 MW, Olorunsogo. 0 MW, Olorunsogo-NIPP. 0 MW, Omoku. 0 MW, Omotosho. 0 MW, Paras 0 MW, Rivers IPP. 0 MW, and Shiroro. 0 MW.

The total megawatts was zero at the time of filing this report.

On February 4, Nigeria experienced its first blackout of 2024 when the national grid collapsed at 11:51am.