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Nigeria’s national grid collapses three times in one week
- 2 months ago (2024-10-21)
- David Flin
On 19 October, Nigeria’s national electricity grid failed for the third time in one week. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has said that the latest grid collapse was the result of a transformer explosion.
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NERC said it: “Notes with concern the recent escalating incidence of grid disturbances often leading to marked outage in several states, thus reducing many of the gains recently achieved in reducing infrastructure deficit and improving grid stability.” It also said: “Initial reports on the grid disturbance that occurred on 19 October indicate that the outage was triggered by an explosion of a current transformer at the Jebba transmission station at 0815 hours and an associated cascade of power plants shut down arising from the loss of load.”