Electricity Restored As Transmission Company Reveals Cause of Blackout

• The transmission company of Nigeria has announced that electricity has been restored following the collapse of the national grid on Wednesday, July 20
• The general manager of the transmission company, Ndidi Mbah, blamed the blackout on a sudden drop in system frequency
• The national control centre attributed the cause of the blackout to the tripping of a unit in one of the generating stations

The restoration of electricity has been completed by the transmission company of Nigeria (TCN), following the collapse of the national grid on Wednesday, July 20.

As reported by Channels Television, the general manager of the TCN, Ndidi Mbah, in a statement on Thursday, July 21, blamed the system collapse on a sudden drop in system frequency from 49.94Hz to 47.36Hz.

The national control centre (NCC) stated that it was due to the tripping of a unit (with a load of 106 MW) in one of the generating stations due to bad temperatures.

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Mbah added that this pulled out other grid-connected units in the plant, which resulted in a generation loss of 457MW.

She further noted that:

However, inspite of setbacks encountered at the initial stage, grid restoration had almost been completed as at 11:00pm when this report was filed.”

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While appreciating electricity consumers in Nigeria and outside, she noted that the electricity supply industry will strengthen supply reliability.

Adding that this is to put an end to the issue of system supply.

She also revealed that a full-scale investigation is underway to get to the root cause of the failure.

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Legit.ng reported that the Nigerian ministry of power has revealed that there is some increase in the country's power supply, making the electricity generation a total of 3,904 MWs as of Tuesday, April 12 2022.

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According to the ministry, the recent grid collapse was caused by vandals, noting that the country's power generation stands at close to 4,000MW.

statistics have shown that Nigerians used about 144KWh per capital. Meanwhile, about 12,000MW is needed to meet up with with the country's population demand.

Source: Legit.ng