37 days after grid failure, Eko DisCo confirms another grid collapse

By Uthman Salami

The Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) has announced another national grid collapse barely months after the last system failure.

The Spokesperson of EKEDC, Godwin Idemudia confirmed this national grid, which has almost become a reverberating occurrence in the Nigerian power sector.

Idemudia said the incident has thrown its network into darkness.The collapse has caused outages in most parts of Lagos.

The collapse, which happened 37 days after the June 13 system failure, dropped power supply to 40 MW.

The grid collapsed yesterday, causing blackouts in Lagos and states across the country.

The system failure, which is the sixth in the last seven months, dipped the entire power supply nationwide to 40 megawatts.

The distribution load profile showed that the national grid collapsed at around 12:23 pm on Wednesday.

Electricity from the generation companies was abysmally low of 40MW against 3,000MW generated the previous day.

Allocations to the 10 electricity distribution companies were zero, except 40MW and 10MW to Abuja and Ibadan Discos respectively at 12:23 pm when the incident occurred.

The cause of the system collapse is yet to be ascertained as at the time of filing this report, but the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has begun investigation.