BY GODWIN OBI
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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