Nigeria’s power transmission grid collapsed on Tuesday night leading to widespread blackout across the country.
It was gathered that the collapse was due to a fire incident on the Escravos Lagos Pipeline System of the Nigerian Gas Processing and Transportation Company Limited.
Officials had to quickly shutdown the pipeline which incidentally supplies gas to six thermal power plants eventually leading to the collapse of the country’s electricity grid at 10:20pm on Tuesday.
This was confirmed by the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing in a statement issued around on Wednesday morning saying the fire incident was regrettable that after a sustained period of increasing production and distribution of power since September 2017.
“The incident requires a shutdown of the pipeline supplying gas to Egbin 1,320megawatts; Olorunsogo NIPP 676MW; Olorunsogo 338MW; Omotosho NIPP 450MW; Omotosho 338 MW; and Paras 60MW power stations,” the statement read.
“The sudden loss of generation due to interruption in gas supply from these stations caused the national transmission grid to trip off around 20:20 on 2nd January 2018.
“The national transmission grid is owned and operated by the Transmission Company of Nigeria.”
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