The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has said that power outage being experienced across the nation was as a result of ‘temporary grid disturbance’.
TCN’s General Manager of Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, made this known in a statement after the grid broke down on Saturday morning, the third time this week.
Data obtained from the Nigerian System Operator’s portal (niggrid.org), revealed that the grid recorded an unprecedented zero Megawatts (MW) as of 8:16 am on Saturday.
The grid had collapsed twice this week, marking the eighth grid disturbance in 2024.
Mr Mbah said although the bus section of a current transformer had exploded at 330kV Jebba Transmission Substation, power has been restored.
“The Transmission Company of Nigeria hereby states that the national grid experienced a temporary disturbance at about 8:15 am, today, 19th Oct. 2024.
“According to the report from the TCN, the bus section of a current transformer exploded at 330kV Jebba Transmission Substation and as expected, the protection system was activated, and this promptly opened the busbars to curtail the explosion, thereby preventing outbreak of fire and further damage to adjacent equipment.
“The action of the protection system led to a temporary disturbance on the grid.
“Our engineers at Jebba have successfully carried out switchings, isolating the faulty current transformer. They have equally reconfigured the busbar arrangement, restoring power supply to the station, and other parts of the grid,” the statement read.
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