NERC Reveals Cause Of Saturday’s National Grid Collapse

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has claimed that the national grid collapse on Saturday, was a result of a current transformer explosion.

The grid collapsed for a third time in one week today.

Giving an update on the collapse in a statement on its social media handles, the NERC said it “Notes with concern the recent escalating incidence of grid disturbances often leading to marked outage in several states thus reversing many of the gains recently achieved in reducing infrastructure deficit and improving grid stability.”

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The statement disclosed, “Initial reports on the grid disturbance that occurred this morning indicate that today’s outage was triggered by an explosion of a current transformer at the Jebba transmission station at 0815hrs and an associated cascade of power plants shut down arising from the loss of load.”

The commission stated, however, that efforts to restore supply had advanced “with power significantly restored, as at 1300hrs, in 33 states and the FCT.”