Nigeria’s new power Minister Adebayo Adelabu is urging engineers at the Transmission Company of Nigeria to speed efforts to restore power supply across the West African nation.
Adelabu who is currently attending Korea-Africa Economic Cooperation Ministerial Conference 2023 in Busan, Korean in a series of tweets after the collapse of the national grid, which resulted in total black out wrote, “we are on top of the situation and speedy restoration is in progress”.
“The fire has been arrested fully and over half of the connections are now up and the rest will be fully restored in no time.
“My sincere appreciation to those who responded or expressed concern, via different channels and the team of Engineers for their prompt response to the situation and work done so far. Let’s get the restoration work completed as soon as possible,” he said.
Reports suggested that there was a fire outbreak on Kainji/Jebba 330kV line 2 (Cct K2J) blue phase CVT & Blue phase line Isolator of Kainji/Jebba 330kV line1.
This, according to report resulted to sharp drops in frequency from 50.29Hz to 49.67 Hz at 0:35:06hrs with Jebba generation loss of 356.63MW.
Kainji also started dropping load from 451.45 MW at 00:35:07Hrs to zero.
At 00:41Hrs, frequency dropped further from 49.37 Hz to 48.41Hz then, resulted in system collapse of the grid.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com