Tag: national grid

News

Blackout as national grid experiences disturbance

Nigeria experienced a major power outage on Friday, following a reported collapse of the National Grid. The Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company in a statement via its X account attributed the blackout to a “system outage” and assured customers that efforts were underway to restore supply. “Please be informed that we experienced a system outage today […]

Power crisis worsens as National grid collapses again
News

Power crisis worsens as National grid collapses again

Nigeria experienced yet another national grid collapse on Wednesday, leaving many parts of the country without electricity. The collapse occurred shortly after 11 a.m., leading to a significant drop in power generation. At 11 a.m., the grid was generating 4,064 megawatts, but this figure plummeted to 1,203MW by noon before dropping to zero by 1 […]

News

National grid did not collapse – Official

The Nigeria National Grid Centre has denied reports of a national grid collapse on Saturday, January 11, 2025. In a post on its official X handle, the Centre addressed the rumors, which had been widely circulated, and confirmed that the grid remained stable. It said in its post “Kindly ignore rumour of a grid collapse […]

News

Blackout looms as national grid collapses 12th time in 2024

Many parts of Nigeria have been plunged into darkness following the 12th national grid collapse this year. In a message to customers, the Jos Electricity Distribution Company confirmed the collapse, which occurred on Wednesday afternoon. The statement, signed by the company’s Head of Corporate Communication, Friday Elijah, acknowledged the outage and reassured customers of efforts […]

featured News

Again, national grid collapses 

The national grid on Thursday collapsed, making it the second time in space of two days. The national grid collapsed on Tuesday, the 10th of such incidents this year. With the last collapse, the country has recorded 11 of such incidents in 2024. Generation dropped to 0.00MW from 2,323 megawatts of electricity generated by 22 […]

National grid goes 400 day without collapse
News

How Gombe hydropower plant contributed 401GW to national grid

Managing Director of Mabon Limited, Engr. Richard Madubunyi, has said that the Dadin Kowa Hydropower project has so far supplied the National Grid with roughly 401 Gigawatts of energy. Nigerian Tribune reported that Madubunyi made this announcement at the commissioning of the 40MW Dadin Kowa Hydroelectric Power Plant in Gombe State. “The power plant has […]

FG owes N100bn electricity bill debt - Distributors
Business

Nigeria secures China funding to fix national grid

The Transmission Company of Nigeria has signed an agreement with a group of Chinese companies to secure funding for the improvement of the strained  National grid. BusinessDay reported that the statement was according to the head of TCN, Sule Abdulaziz at the Middle East Energy Conference, on Tuesday, in Dubai. During a panel session at […]

Electricity

Blackout as national grid collapses again

Nigeria’s power grid collapsed again on Wednesday, making it the sixth time that the system had crashed in 2022. The grid crashed from the 3,921.8 megawatts that was generated at 6am to as low as 50MW around 12.23pm, causing widespread blackout across the country. Industry figures obtained from the Federal Ministry of Power in Abuja […]

Sign Up for Our Newsletter

Subscribe to our newsletter to get our newest articles instantly!

Email Us: [email protected]