By Damilare Adeleye
As usual, Nigeria’s electricity grid has reportedly collapsed. It was learnt that the grid collapsed around 2:42 am on Monday, with generation dropping to 64.70megawatt.
According to reports, only one generation company, Ibom Power, judging by the data from the Independent System Operator (ISO), a branch of the Transmission Company of Nigeria.
It was recalled that this is the sixth collapse of the national grid in 2024.
As of 8am on Monday, the latest data from the ISO showed that the grid is currently generating 266.50mw of electricity from Okpai, Geregu and Ibom power.
Confirming the collapse in a statement, Jos DisCo 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, 15th April 2024, hence the loss of power supply on all our feeders.”
The company’s head of Corporate Affairs, Dr Friday Adakole Elijah, expressed hope that the grid is restored for normal power supply to its esteemed customers.