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Again national power grid collapses, nationwide outage hits Nigeria

Last updated: June 12, 2022 10:56 pm
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The National grid on Sunday Evening collapsed for the fourth time in 2023.

A nationwide outage occurred Sunday evening as the power grid crashed to zero with power bulbs fluctuating.

This is about the fourth time the country, will be experiencing a system collapse this year with the last being on 8th April 2022.

Reports from the Nigeria System Operations, a section of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, and grid manager, indicate that there has been a lull in power generation.

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The highest generation on Saturday was 3,685MW, also being the highest electricity generated in Nigeria for a week (since Sunday 5th June).

Confirming the collapse, The Kaduna Electric in a message to it’s Customers the Disco blamed the blackout on System Collapse of the National Grid.

The collapse occured at about 6:47 pm on Sunday hence the loss of supply on all feeders.

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