Blackout: Businesses suffer as national grid collapses again

By Obas Esiedesa, Abuja

Businesses and homes suffered setback, yesterday, arsenic Nigeria recorded different nationalist grid collapse. The full energy procreation dropped to 1.5 megawatts, MW 2,917.83 MW betwixt 11 americium and 12 pm.

Shortly aft the collapse, the Nigeria National Grid, an X grip that provides updates connected Electric powerfulness organisation announced that “System restoration is successful progress.”

In different tweet, the X relationship stated that the Disco loads of each powerfulness organisation companies crossed the state speech Ibadan DisCo person travel down to zero megawatt.

“Disco load” is the magnitude of powerfulness (in megawatts, MW) allocated from the nationalist grid to each Electricity Distribution Company (DisCo).

Meanwhile, the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC,  said that the nationalist grid collapsed astatine astir 11.23 a.m. The institution made this known connected its verified twitter grip successful Abuja.

It said:” Please beryllium informed that the powerfulness outage presently being experienced is owed to a nonaccomplishment of proviso from the nationalist grid astatine astir 11:23 a.m. connected Wednesday.”

According to the company, the outage affected energy proviso crossed its franchise areas.

“Be remainder assured we are moving intimately with the applicable stakeholders to guarantee powerfulness is restored erstwhile the grid is stabilised.

However, the Nigerian Independent System Operator (NISO) has blamed Wednesday’s illness of the nationalist grid connected a tripping incidental astatine 1 of the country’s powerfulness procreation companies.

In a statement, NISO said the grid suffered a strategy disturbance astatine 11:20 a.m. connected September 10, 2025, aft the tripping triggered a important load drop, which cascaded to different powerfulness plants.

The bureau said grid restoration commenced astatine 11:45 a.m., starting with proviso from the Shiroro Power Plant to Abuja, with “substantial recovery” already achieved nationwide.

It stated: “The disturbance was caused by the tripping of a GenCo, resulting successful a important load drop, which cascaded to different GenCos, starring to a strategy disturbance.

“NISO instantly commenced restoration of the grid astatine 11:45 hrs, opening with proviso to Abuja from the Shiroro powerfulness plant, and important restoration has been achieved crossed the country. A afloat probe into the contiguous and distant causes is underway. The result of the probe study would find the remedial and proactive actions to beryllium taken to forestall aboriginal occurrences”.

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