The national power grid collapsed on Thursday, grounding power transmission in the country to zero.
Data from the country’s System Operator, which showed this, revealed that all the Discos received zero Mega Watts (MW) when the grid collapsed.
‘New Telegraph’, however, learnt that efforts to immediately restore electricity supply was fruitless.
Notwithstanding the restoration of the grid, DISCOs received dismal allocation, which worsened the power situation across the country.
For instance, out of the 450MW that was due the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, the Disco only got about 50MW when the situation began to improve. Before the collapse, AEDC got an allocation of 257.97MW and the nationwide generation level stood at 2,243.2MW.
Officials from the Federal Ministry of Power had attributed the never-ending fall in electricity generation to vandalism of gas pipelines and destruction of vital infrastructure in the industry by miscreants.
‘New Telegraph’ had exclusively reported on Wednesday that power generation, transmission and supply in the country crashed again on Tuesday, March 29, to 2, 906 megawatt from 3778.90mw peak it attained on Monday.
A new record generation peak of 5074.7mw and the highest maximum daily energy wheeled nationwide of 109,372mw were earlier attained on Tuesday, February 2, 2016.
The Nigerian Electricity System (NES) operator, however, said on Tuesday that the power transmission to the 11 distribution companies fell by about 873mw between Monday and Tuesday. NES, an arm of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) maintained in its website that it transmitted 2,905.70mw to the 11 electricity distribution companies across the country.
