35
Nigeria experienced its sixth power grid failure of 2024, with energy output dropping from 2,583.77MW around 2 a.m. on Monday to 64.7MW at 3 a.m.
Nigeria generates an average of 4,000MW of power for its 200 million residents.
However, this is unlikely to be sustainable if the system continues to collapse owing to gas supply restrictions, transmission infrastructure vandalism, and a cash crisis, among other factors.
According to data from the Independent System Operator, an arm of Nigeria’s Transmission firm, just one energy-producing firm, Ibom Power, was operational when the system collapsed on Monday morning.
Power output on the system fell to 44.5MW at about 4 a.m., before increasing to 132.29MW an hour later.
cc: Punch Ng
