The total power failure experienced
nationwide last Thursday was caused
by high voltage, the Transmission
Company of Nigeria has said.
The blackout, which occurred around
1.55pm on the fateful day, resulted in
a complete system collapse.
TCN said the development made
many transmission equipment to
explode at Ayede in Ibadan, Oyo
State; Osogbo, Osun State; Ganmo in
Ilorin, Kwara State as well as Shiroro
in Niger State.
Although the firm said it had restored
power to most parts of the country, it
explained that the damaged
equipment tripped a major electricity
transmission line, which warranted a
total collapse of the grid.
The General Manager, Public Affairs,
TCN, Mr. Dave Ifabiyi, said engineers
worked throughout the night and into
the early hours of Friday to replace
the damaged equipment.
Ifabiyi said, in the statement, “The
damaged equipment tripped the 330
kV transmission lines from Osogbo in
Osun State to Ikeja-West in Lagos
State; Benin in Edo State to Omotosho
in Ondo State; Omotosho to Ikeja-
West and Egbin to Ikeja-West in Lagos
State, as well as Okpai in Edo State to
Onitsha in Anambra State.”
TCN expressed regrets that the repair
efforts to restore power supply took a
while because of the enormity of the
incident.
It apologised to the Federal
Government and Nigerians for the
inconveniences caused by the outage.
Incessant system collapse prompted
the decision of the Federal
Government to consider generating
additional 4,000 megawatts of
electricity from coal two weeks ago.
The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu
Nebo, said this would augment the
country’s power generation, which is
currently a little above 4,000MW.
Nebo, who said this in Abuja while
inaugurating an eight-man committee
on the development of a framework
for coal to power, said, “The Federal
Ministry of Power and the Federal
Ministry of Mines and Steel are
working together to ensure that not
only is coal mined from our coal
deposits, but that coal is also
converted to power.
“When that is done, it is most likely
that these coal belts can give us in
excess of 4,000 additional megawatts
of electricity. No nation can survive on
only one or two sources of energy. If
there is sabotage or natural disaster
that prevents one source of power,
and if that is the only source, then
there is problem.”


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Why are they apologysing? I dont even know there was any system collapse in electricity supply bcause it is normal for electricity to fail for a day or two, at worst time, a week

Why is the system grid ALWAYS or PARTIALLY collapsing despite the Billion$ sunk in the power sector?

cogitoErgo: Why are they apologysing? I dont even know there was any system collapse in electricity supply bcause it is normal for electricity to fail for a day or two, at worst time, a week

pay your PHCN bills.

stan-ogb:
pay your PHCN bills.

. It's absurd paying for wat u did not consume. SMH for 9ja