About 1:00 pm, the system failed, reducing electrical output from 4,032.80 megawatts at approximately 12 pm to 43 megawatts at 1 pm, and a pitiful 303 megawatts at approximately 5:00 pm.
According to data accessible on the Transmission Company of Nigeria's System Network, as of 5 p.m., all 22 power plants on the grid were reading 0 megawatts. Despite this, the majority of DisCos reported that their feeders are down.
The national grid, one of the most embarrassing structures in the electricity industry, has collapsed roughly 138 times in the past ten years, and it has failed numerous times this year alone.
TCN had just hoisted the drums in an untruthful celebration of 400 days without a system failure. The grid system failed in a double jeopardy around two months ago at 12:40 a.m. and then collapsed again at 6:40 a.m. (six hours interval).
There were 24 electrical system collapses in the nation in 2013, according to data on grid collapse. In 2014, there were 13 collapse incidents recorded. The grid collapsed ten times in 2015, twenty-eight times in 2016, and twenty-one times in 2017.
In 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021, there were 13, 11, 4, and 4 grid failure cases, respectively. Approximately ten times between 2022 and present year, it collapsed.
43 megawatts of Ibom power remained on the grid as of Monday at 1:00 pm, according to a check by The Guardian. With 303 megawatts, only Azura was connected to the grid at 5:00 p.m.
The Guardian was informed by several Distribution Companies (DisCos) that the grid went down at approximately thirteen o'clock.