{"id":318834,"date":"2024-04-15T11:01:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T10:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=318834"},"modified":"2024-04-15T11:01:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T10:01:55","slug":"total-blackout-as-national-grid-collapses-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2024\/04\/15\/total-blackout-as-national-grid-collapses-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Total blackout as National grid collapses again"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Nigeria generates an average of 4,000MW of electricity for an estimated 200 million citizens across the country<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nigeria has witnessed its sixth power grid collapse of 2024, as electricity generation on the system collapsed from 2,583.77MW at 2am on Monday to 64.7MW around 3 am.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria generates an average of 4,000MW of electricity for an estimated 200 million citizens across the country.<\/p>\n<p>But this is hardly sustainable, as the grid continues to record incessant collapse due to gas supply constraints, transmission infrastructure vandalism, and liquidity crisis, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the Independent System Operator, an arm of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, showed that only one electricity generation company, Ibom Power, was active at the time of the grid collapse on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Power generation on the grid crashed further to 44.5MW around 4am, before rising to 132.29MW an hour later.<\/p>\n<p>The grid collapse was confirmed by Jos Electricity Distribution Company.<\/p>\n<p>The Head, Corporate Affairs, JEDC, Dr Friday Elijah, in a notice to customers, said, \u201cThe current outage being experienced within our franchise states is a result of loss of power supply from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2024\/03\/29\/tcn-confirms-restoration-of-national-grid-after-blackout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national grid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe loss of power supply from the national grid occurred in the early hours at about 0242hours of today, Monday, April 15, 2024, hence the loss of power supply on all our feeders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elijah, however, expressed hope that the grid would be restored for normal power supply to electricity consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria generates an average of 4,000MW of electricity for an estimated 200 million citizens across the country Nigeria has witnessed its sixth power grid collapse of 2024, as electricity generation on the system collapsed from 2,583.77MW at 2am on Monday to 64.7MW around 3 am. 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