Nigerians are thrown into darkness again, no thanks to another grid collapse which caused a shutdown of plants across the country.
The Federal Ministry of power wishes to apprise the general public that the immediate cause of national blackout (system collapse) was an act of vandalism on a transmission tower on the Odukpani Ikot Ekpene 330kV double circuit transmission line thus resulting in a sudden loss of about 400MW of generation. This consequently led to a cascade of plant shut down across the country.
The Ministry made this known in a statement made available to Energy Frontier.
“We wish to notify the public that power on the grid is being restored sequentially by the System Operator as other on-grid power plants are being dispatched to cover the lost generation capacity from the Calabar power plant owned by the Niger Power Holding Company Ltd”, the Ministry said.
