... Says Investigations Underway
The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, on Thursday blamed the national grid collapse which threw the Nigeria into darkness to a fire incident on Kanji/Jebba 330kV line 2.
Ndidi Mbah, General Manager, Public Affairs, who gave the explanation in a statement, however assured that the incident is being investigated, with the view to forestalling future occurrence and invariably further strengthen the grid.
Mbah said that grid restoration nationwide is in progress and has reached advanced stages with power supply now available in the West, North Central, South, East, and a large portion of the Northern parts of the country.
“The power supply restoration is sequel to the total grid collapse, which occurred at 12.35 am, this morning, causing outage nationwide, after over 421 days of consistent grid stability.
“In the course of the grid restoration, the process initially suffered a setback; this does not amount to another collapse. In the course of any grid restoration process, challenges may be encountered. This happened today while the grid restoration was in progress, but it was promptly addressed.
“It is recalled that the last total system collapse recorded was on 20th July 2022, from then to the 13th of September, 2023, ( 421 days), the system had been stable in spite of the challenges posed by zero spinning reserve and lack of adequate System Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) essential to a strong and stable grid, among others
“TCN had been able to maintain 421 days of grid stability because it developed and deployed in-house stop gap measures and tools that it has continued to use to manage the nations grid, ensuring its stability.
“Meanwhile, the collapse which occurred after a fire incident on Kanji/Jebba 330kV line 2 is being investigated, with the view to forestalling future occurrence
and invariably further strengthen the grid.
“The incident notwithstanding, TCN is determined to continue to do its best to ensure grid stability” reads the statement in parts.
