The electrical generation on the system dropped from 2,583.77MW at 2 am on Monday to 64.7MW at 3 am, marking Nigeria’s sixth power grid breakdown of 2024. The Jos Electricity Distribution Company verified the grid collapse on Monday.
According to data from the Independent System Operator, a division of the Transmission firm of Nigeria, only Ibom Power, an electrical generating firm, was operational at the time of the grid collapse on Monday morning. At about 4 a.m, power generation on the grid fell even lower to 44.5 MW, then an hour later, it increased to 132.29 MW.
Nigeria provides an estimated 200 million people with power on an average of 4,000MW each year. However, given the grid’s ongoing collapse as a result of, among other things, the shortage of gas, the destruction of transmission infrastructure, and the liquidity crisis, this is scarcely sustainable.
In a warning to consumers, Dr. Friday Elijah, Head of Corporate Affairs at JEDC, stated: “The current outage within our franchise states is a result of loss of power supply from the national grid.”
“The loss of power supply from the national grid occurred in the early hours at about 0242 hours of today, Monday, April 15, 2024, hence the loss of power supply on all our feeders.”
Elijah, nevertheless, voiced optimism that the grid would be fixed so that electricity users could resume receiving their regular supply of power.
The PUNCH reported on February 5, 2024, that the country’s grid collapsed nationally, resulting in power generation on the national grid falling to 59.9MW at around 12 pm on February 4, 2024.
According to data from the Federal Ministry of Power, power distributors lost access to the grid on February 4, 2024, causing electricity generation on the grid to drop from 2,658.75MW at 11 a.m. to 59.9MW by 12 p.m.
As a result, there were several blackouts throughout the nation, which the power distribution firms attributed to the failure of the system operated by the Federal Government’s Transmission Company of Nigeria.
