Nigeria’s national grid on Wednesday collapsed to 40 mega watts around 12:23 pm causing a blackout in states across the country.
This is coming 37 days after the June 13 system failure, crashed the power supply to 40 MW.
The system failure, which is the sixth in the last 7 months, dipped the entire power supply nationwide to 40 mega watts against 3,000 mega watts generated on Tuesday.
The 10 electricity distribution companies received zero allocation except 40MW and 10MW to Abuja and Ibadan Discos respectively at 12:23 pm when the incident occurred.
The cause of the national grid collapse is yet to be established but the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has, as usual, launched an investigation to unravel the cause.