Nigeria’s national electricity grid has collapsed for the second time in 2022, resulting in blackout across the West African nation.
The grid, which collapsed on Monday, March 14, 2022, has affected many states including Lagos, Enugu, Kaduna, Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo.
Some power distribution companies reached out to their customers by text message to confirm the development.
“Dear esteemed customer, a system collapse occurred on the national grid at 10:40 am today, leading to outages across our network.
“We are working on the situation with our TCN partners and will keep you updated.We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience this may have caused,’’ Eko Electricity Distribution Company said in a text message to customers.
Another disco, Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company, which confirmed the incident to its customer via text message, said: “We regret to inform you that the power outage being experienced in our franchise states is due to system collapse of the national grid which occurred at about 10:40 am.
“Power supply shall be restored as soon as the national grid is powered back. Our sincere apologies for any inconvenience,” the text message concluded.
On its part, the Enugu Electricity Distribution PLC said that the system collapse has affected supply in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and the Imo States.
The notice signed by EEDC Head, Corporate Communications, Emeka Ezeh, read: “The Enugu Electricity Distribution PLC (EEDC) wishes to inform her esteemed customers in the South-East of a general system collapse which occurred this morning, Monday, 14th March 2022 at 10:40 am.
“This is the reason for the loss of supply currently being experienced across the network.
“Consequently, all our outgoing feeders are out and supply to our customers in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and the Imo States are affected by this development.”
Some residents who shared their frustration to energynewsafrica.com via WhatsApp said they have been compelled by the circumstances to use gensets.
At the time of filing this report, the grid had still not been restored.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com