Major cities across the nation are presently experiencing blackout following the collapse of the national grid, it was reported that no fewer than four Distribution Companies (DISCOs) confirmed the development through its social media page, alerting their customers of the present situation in their respective domain. The national power grid collapsed at the beginning of the week, causing a nationwide outage as the entire system crashed due to the loss of 1,100 megawatts from a 3,700mw peak generation earlier recorded.
The Minister of Power, Mr. Abubakar Aliyu, called an emergency meeting yesterday to resolve all outstanding issues with the stakeholders in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) as a result of the worsening power situation. According to the grid operation trend, of the active 25 Gencos on the grid, 19 were producing power as of 6 am, when the grid had 3,867.60MW, but that began to reduce gradually until it dropped to 2,761.20MW by 10 am after six Gencos went down, leaving just 13, before crashing to zero at 10.40 am
For the power sector, as of yesterday afternoon, the system was yet to pick up the load, according to a grid operations report, which showed that just three Generation Companies (Gencos) were trying to restart, but were yet to generate any energy.
Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) also pleaded for the understanding of its customers, noting that it is taking appropriate steps to salvage the situation.
The Disco stated, “Dear esteemed customer, we experienced a general outage across the AEDC network at 10:40 am today due to a system collapse which occurred on the national grid.
“Appropriate measures are now being taken to restore normal supply as quickly as possible. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.”
The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company was not left out in alerting its customers and apologizing for the inconvenience, thereby stating reasons for the blackout
The Enugu Electricity Distribution PLC (EEDC) wishes to inform her esteemed customers in the South East of a general system collapse which occurred this morning, Monday, 14th March 2022 at 10:40 am,” Ezeh said.
“This is the reason for the loss of supply currently being experienced across the network. Consequently, all our outgoing feeders are out and supply to our customers in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and the Imo States are affected by this development.”
The Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) in confirming the incident assured its customers in a text message noting that it was following up with the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) to restore power.
“Dear esteemed customers, a system collapse occurred on the national grid at 10:40 am today, leading to outages across our network. We are working on the situation with our TCN partners and will keep you updated.
“We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused.”
