The Nigerian government has said that Saturday’s national grid breakdown was triggered by the explosion of a current transformer at the Jebba transmission facility around 08:15 a.m.
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) announced this in a statement on Saturday.
Saturday’s national grid collapse was the third time the system has shut down in the past seven days.
Reacting, NERC stated that bulk power supply has been considerably restored as of 13:00 hours on Saturday across 33 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
According NERU:
“The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission notes with concern the recent escalating incidence of national grid disturbances often leading to marked outage in several states thus reversing many of the gains recently achieved in reducing infrastructure deficit and improving grid stability.
“Initial reports on the national grid disturbance that occurred this morning indicate that today’s outage was triggered by an explosion of a current transformer at the Jebba transmission station at 0815hrs and an associated cascade of power plants shut down arising from the loss of load.
“However, efforts to restore supply have advanced with power significantly restored, as at 1300hrs, in 33 states and the
FCT.”
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