Power generation on the national grid collapsed to as low as 10
megawatts on Wednesday afternoon, but rose to 4,123.8MW on
Thursday morning after a four-hour intervention by the Transmission
Company of Nigeria.
Industry figures sighted on Thursday showed that power on the grid
crashed from a peak of 4,270.5MW to 10MW that was recorded on
Wednesday.
The grid lost 3,489.1MW, representing 99.71 per cent, but moved up to
4,123.8MW as of 6am on Thursday after TCN engineers worked on the
system.
The General Manager, Public Affairs, TCN, Ndidi Mbah, explained that
the grid was fully restored at 4:59pm on Wednesday after the collapse
which occurred at about 12:20pm same day.
She said the collapse was triggered by a sudden drop in system
frequency to 47.21Hz.
