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The national grid, on Thursday, suffered a fresh total system collapse for the first time in one year.
According to the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) Plc, in a notice to customers, the national grid collapsed at about 12.40 a.m. today.
What is happening to the national grid in Nigeria?
This is not unrelated to the fact that over the past 12 years (2010 to June 2022), the power grid has collapsed 222 times at the minimum. This number takes into consideration both partial and total grid collapse. [1] In 2022, the grid collapsed seven times from January to September 2022.
The national grid suffered a fresh total system collapse, on Thursday.
In a notice to customers, the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) Plc said the national grid collapsed at about 12.40 am today.
Ndidi Mbah, spokesperson for the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), also confirmed the development to TheCable.
“It is a system collapse, but we are trying to restore it,” she said.
What causes electricity grid collapse?
It is designed to operate within certain limits, stability limits, in line with voltage, current, and frequency. So, whenever these limits are out of the stability range, the operation of the grid will become unstable and can then collapse.
What causes system collapse?
Power grid
It is intended to operate within certain limits, known as stability limits, in accordance with voltage, current, and frequency. As a result, whenever these limits are outside of the stability range, the grid’s operation becomes unstable and may collapse.
Power Outage In Nigeria Today 2023
Reports indicate that at approximately 12:40 a.m. on September 14, 2023, the national electricity grid in Nigeria experienced a complete collapse, resulting in a significant loss of power supply to distributors across the country.
Multiple sources within the power sector and electricity distribution companies officially confirmed this development on Thursday morning, according to the Punch.
National grid collapse 2023
The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) also reported the collapse. “The management of AEDC wishes to inform its customers that the power outage currently being experienced is a result of a system failure from the national grid in the early hours of today, 14 September 2023.
