The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has disclosed that Saturday’s grid collapse was caused by a current transformer explosion.
Waffi TV reports that this marks the third national grid collapse within a week, occurring on Saturday.
Power generation was lost around 8:16 AM that morning.
Giving an update on the collapse in a statement on its social media handles, the NERC said it “Notes with concern the recent escalating incidence of grid disturbances often leading to marked outage in several states thus reversing many of the gains recently achieved in reducing infrastructure deficit and improving grid stability.”
The statement disclosed, “Initial reports on the grid disturbance that occurred this morning indicate that today’s outage was triggered by an explosion of a current transformer at the Jebba transmission station at 0815hrs and an associated cascade of power plants shut down arising from the loss of load.”
The commission stated, however, that efforts to restore supply had advanced “with power significantly restored, as at 1300hrs, in 33 states and the FCT.”
It added, “In line with the provisions of the Electricity Act 2023, the unbundling of the System Operator function (ISO) out of Transmission Company of Nigeria Plc is ongoing with the expectation that an independent System Operator would engender more discipline in grid management and optimised investment in infrastructure.”
In pursuit of finding a permanent resolution to the challenges of the national grid, the commission said it shall shortly conduct an investigative public hearing to identify immediate and remote causes of recurring incidents of grid disturbances and widespread outages.
”The date and venue of the public hearing will shortly be announced in the national dailies and stakeholders are encouraged to participate,” the statement concluded.
For the third time in a week, the national grid collapsed again on Saturday, with power generation going off at around 8:16 AM.
Earlier in the week, the grid had tripped off on Monday and Tuesday during restoration efforts.
Our correspondent’s findings revealed that power generation was at 3,042 megawatts by 8:00 AM, having peaked at 3,968MW an hour earlier.
However, by 9:00 AM, generation had plummeted to just 47MW, with no power allocated to distribution companies at the time of the incident.
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