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National Grid Collapsed Twice To 10MW, 33MW Last Week – FG

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National Grid: Power Generation Maintains 4,000MW Upward Supply In 2023
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A report released by the Federal Government has shown that the collapse of Nigeria’s electricity grid occurred twice on Friday and Saturday despite efforts to stabilise the power system.

The Federal Ministry of Power in the report disclosed that the quantum of electricity on the grid crashed from over 3,000 megawatts on Friday, April 8, 2022, to as low as 10MW around 9 pm on Friday.

On Saturday, another national grid collapsed which led to the power system collapsing to 33MW around 01.00 hours, after it had earlier posted a peak generation of 3,281.50MW at 00.00 hours on Saturday.

The grid as of Sunday moved up to 3,117.40MW, while the peak generation was 3,658.80MW.

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As of 6 am on Monday the quantum of power on the national grid was 3,623.90MW, indicating a marginal drop of 34.9MW when compared to the previous day’s peak generation.

The national grid collapsed twice in March within two days, a development which saw the Federal Government summon a meeting of stakeholders to address the issue.

The grid still collapsed twice last week despite the meeting held over the collapse of the grid in March.

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The Special Adviser to the President on Infrastructure, Ahmed Zakari, in his reaction to the collapse of the national grid blamed it on the sabotage of power infrastructure, describing the act as one that was difficult to comprehend.

Zakari in his reaction on Twitter wrote, “Yesterday we had a grid collapse, the driver was sabotage of Ikot-Ekpene Calabar 330kv tower. The grid is connected, an event at a large power source can collapse the system. Sabotage of our infrastructure by citizens is difficult to comprehend.

“It is important to improve security but the infrastructure is vast, spans thousands of kilometres, and has multiple risk points. When citizens sabotage infrastructure, it leads you to question if we want to progress as a nation. Hardship inflicted on fellow citizens is unconscionable.

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“We will work to innovate infrastructure security protocol but securing our infrastructure must be everyone’s work. If you see someone damaging infrastructure please take action to report to authorities or intervene if possible. This is our ‘common wealth’ and we must protect it.”