Barely two weeks after the country experienced a total power failure for several hours, March ending, there was yet another collapse last Saturday with the grid dropping to 97 megawatts (mw),Daily Trust reports.
Reports have shown that 161 system collapses have been recorded in the transmission system between 2009 and 2016. Reports from the National Control Centre (NCC) in Osogbo, Osun, a section of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) obtained in January, 2013 showed that 39 collapses happened in 2009, with another 42 in 2010. It reduced to 19 cases in 2011 but rose to 24 collapses in 2012.
The grid witnessed 22 cases in 2013 which reduced by more than half, to nine in 2014 and six in 2015. This year, 2016, three cases were recorded between March and April.
