by Nigeria has twenty-three (23) power generating plants connected to the national grid with the capacity to generate 11,165.4 MW of electricity. Yesterday, the National electricity grid suffered it’s seventh collapse in the year 2022, leaving the cities in darkness.
The system failure, which occurred at about 11.27.am, according to industry sources, led to the crash of the entire power supply nationwide to 40 megawatts (mw).
The Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) confirmed the development in a statement on Wednesday.
“Dear customers, we regret to inform you of a system collapse on the national grid at precisely 11:27a.m today, July 20.
“We are in talks with the Transmission Company of Nigeria to ascertain the cause of the collapse and a possible restoration timeline.
“We will keep you updated on the situation,” the electricity distribution company said. (NAN) POWER sector engineers have called on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI), to enable the mobilisation of resources to tackle the challenges facing the sector and allow capital punishment for those involved in the vandalism of power infrastructure.
Also, Nigeria was ranked 110th among 127 countries. African countries like kenya, Botswana, Ghana, South Africa, Congo, Zambia, Cameroon, Namibia, and Sudan were ranked far better, in terms of system performance, than Nigeria.
