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BREAKING: National Grid Collapses Again As Power Generation Drops To 42.7MW

This comes barely five days after the grid collapsed twice within a space of more than 12 hours leaving the nation in total darkness.

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Nigeria electricity has collapsed again, as power generation dropped from a peak of 3,594.60 megawatts (MW) at about 1am on Tuesday morning to a meagre 42.7MW as of the point of writing this report.

Only Delta Power plant was active on the grid with 41.00MW as at 12noon while Afam had 1.7MW, Guardian reports.

This comes barely five days after the grid collapsed twice within a space of more than 12 hours leaving the nation in total darkness. 

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VerseNews reported last Thursday that the Nigerian Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu claimed that the explosion at Kainji/Jebba 330kV was the cause of the collapse of the national grid during the early hours of last Thursday. 

The minister had disclosed this in a series of tweets on X platform while assuring that all hands are on deck to ensure speedy restoration of the power. 

He had said, “At 00:35Hrs this morning, Fire outbreak with explosion sound was observed on Kainji/Jebba 330kV line 2 (Cct K2J) blue phase CVT & Blue phase line Isolator of Kainji/Jebba 330kV line1 was observed burning. This led to sharp drops in frequency from 50.29Hz to 49.67 Hz at 0:35:06Hrs with Jebba generation loss of 356.63MW.

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“We are on top of the situation and speedy restoration is in progress. The fire has been fully arrested and over half of the connections are now up and the rest will be fully restored in no time. My sincere appreciation to those who responded or expressed concern via different.”

VerseNews also reported that Electricity supply was restored in Nigeria hours after a nationwide blackout on that Thursday due to the collapse of the national grid operated by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) from Osogbo in Osun State

This was disclosed by the Eko Electricity Distribution Company in a Twitter post on that day. 

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