Nigeria has suffered its sixth power grid failure of 2024, with power production on the system collapsing from 2,583.77MW at 2 a.m. on Monday to 64.7MW at approximately 3 a.m.
For its estimated 200 million inhabitants, Nigeria produces 4,000MW of power on average.
However, this is scarcely sustainable, as the grid keeps experiencing constant failures because of a variety of issues, including a shortage of gas, vandalism of the transmission system, and a liquidity problem.
At the time of Monday morning’s system collapse, just one energy generating firm, Ibom Power, was operational, according to data from the Independent System Operator, a division of the Transmission firm of Nigeria.
Power generation on the grid crashed further to 44.5MW around 4am, before rising to 132.29MW an hour later.The grid collapse was confirmed by Jos Electricity Distribution Company.
The Head, Corporate Affairs, JEDC, Dr Friday Elijah, in a notice to customers, said, “The current outage being experienced 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 0242hours of today, Monday, April 15, 2024, hence the loss of power supply on all our feeders.”
Elijah, however, expressed hope that the grid would be restored for normal power supply to electricity consumers.
