Once again, Nigeria grapples with a crippling power outage, highlighting the chronic instability of its electricity supply. In the early hours of Tuesday, power generation plummeted drastically, nosediving from an impressive 3,594.60 megawatts (MW) to an alarming low of just 42.7MW at the time of composing this report.
Shockingly, only the Delta Power plant remains operational on the national grid, contributing a meager 41.00MW as of noon. Meanwhile, the Afam power plant struggles to provide a mere 1.7MW, as reported by The Guardian.
This grim scenario unfolds merely five days after a double grid collapse occurred, both incidents transpiring within a span of slightly over 12 hours, casting the entire nation into a state of darkness.
It was reported last Thursday that the Nigerian Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu claimed that the explosion at Kainji/Jebba 330kV was the cause of the collapse of the national grid during the early hours of last Thursday.
The minister had disclosed this in a series of tweets on X platform while assuring that all hands are on deck to ensure speedy restoration of the power.
He had said, “At 00:35Hrs this morning, Fire outbreak with explosion sound was observed on Kainji/Jebba 330kV line 2 (Cct K2J) blue phase CVT & Blue phase line Isolator of Kainji/Jebba 330kV line1 was observed burning. This led to sharp drops in frequency from 50.29Hz to 49.67 Hz at 0:35:06Hrs with Jebba generation loss of 356.63MW.
“We are on top of the situation and speedy restoration is in progress. The fire has been fully arrested and over half of the connections are now up and the rest will be fully restored in no time. My sincere appreciation to those who responded or expressed concern via different.”
SaharaReporters also reported that Electricity supply was restored in Nigeria hours after a nationwide blackout on that Thursday due to the collapse of the national grid operated by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) from Osogbo in Osun State
This was disclosed by the Eko Electricity Distribution Company in a Twitter post on that day.
