The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has said that the National grid of Nigeria’s public electricity supply has been fully restored.
A statement by Ndidi Mbah, General Manager (GM), Public Affairs of TCN disclosed this in a statement on Sunday making it clear that there was only partial collapse, not total as reported by a section of the media on Saturday.
According to Mbah’s statement, the Company “hereby states that there was a partial disturbance of the grid at about 15.09Hrs yesterday, 6th July, 2024.
“The system disturbance, which brings to three, the partial grid disturbances, with one total disturbance this year, is suspected to have been triggered by the unexpected tripping of three (3) units of a power generating station, which suddenly removed 313MW from the grid, causing system instability that led to the loss of bulk supply to a section of the national grid”, she stated.
Mentioning parts of the country that had electricity, Mbah said, “Meanwhile, the System Operator reacted to the sudden drop in generation which led to a dip in frequency, by islanding a section of the grid which includes the Ibom Power Station through which the company continued to feed Uyo, Aba, Itu, Eket, Calabar e.t.c even when the other section of the grid had no supply.
“Also, the operators commenced grid restoration efforts immediately after the incident. At about 21.57 hrs yesterday, the entire part of the grid that was affected by todays incident was successfully restored” the statement concluded.
