19th September, 2023
By Constance Athekame/Abuja
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has said that the national grid restoration nationwide has reached advanced stage.
Mrs Ndidi Mbah, TCN General Manager on Public Affairs said that power supply has been restored to the West, North Central, South South, South East, and a large portion of the Northern parts of the country.
The TCN said that the grid collapsed totally at about 12.35 p.m causing outage nationwide, just after the last collapse on 14 September.
It was said to have been caused by a fire incident on the Kanji/Jebba 330 Kilo Volt line II.
Before then, the nation had enjoyed over 421 days of consistent grid stability, since 20 July, 2022.
On the latest grid collapse, Mbah said that in the course of restoration, the process initially suffered a setback.
She said this does not amount to another collapse,
”In the course of any grid restoration process, challenges may be encountered. This happened while the grid restoration was in progress, but it was promptly addressed.
”It would be recalled that the last total system collapse recorded was on July 20, 2022.
” Prior to this, the system had been stable in spite of the challenges posed by zero spinning reserve and lack of System Control and lack of adequate Data Acquisition (SCADA) essential to a strong and stable grid, among others,” Mbah said.
The TCN said it has been able to maintain 400 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.