- Darkness Looms As Grid Collapses the Sixth Time in 2024!
By Abiola Olawale
Nigeria’s electricity grid has yet again suffered another collapse on Monday, worsening the woes of Minister of Power, Chief Adelabu, in terms of incapacity to address the root challenges of the Power Ministry in Nigeria.
It was gathered that the Grid collapse occurred at about 2 am on Monday. This expectedly caused Generation to plummet to 64.70 megawatts, with only one generation company, Ibom Power, remaining active, according to data from the Independent System Operator (ISO), a division of the Transmission Company of Nigeria.
The New Diplomat reports that this marks the sixth collapse of the grid in 2024 alone.
The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company Plc, EEDC, on Monday, confirmed the development in a terse statement to its customers. The company attributed the collapse to the blackout being experienced in the entire Southeast.
EEDC in a statement issued by its Head of Corporate Communications, Emeka Eze, assured residents of the region that efforts are being put in place to ensure that normalcy is restored soon.
The statement reads, “This resulted in the loss of supply to all our interface TCN stations. Consequently, we were unable to provide service to our customers in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo States.
“However, the situation is gradually being resolved as we received supplies at Awada TCN station, Onitsha, at 7:30 am.
“We are in constant communication with the relevant authorities awaiting the full restoration of supply by the National Control Centre, NCC, Oshogbo”.
Similarly, the Jos DisCo, while confirming the collapse, stated: “The current outage being experienced within our franchise States is a result of the loss of power supply from the national grid.
“This loss occurred in the early hours of Monday, leading to power disruptions across their feeder networks.”
