Grid Collapse: Electricity Consumers Advocate Creation Of 2nd Transmission Network

Electricity consumers successful Nigeria’s Southeast geopolitical portion person advised the national authorities to make a 2nd transmission web to code the changeless illness of the nationalist grid.

Responding to the nationwide illness of the transmission web connected Wednesday, September 10, 2025, the Electricity Consumers Association of Nigeria (ECAN), successful the 5 southeastern States, revealed that the 9 section authorities areas (LGAs) served by Aba Power successful Abia State were not affected by the nationalist blackout.

The consumers said successful a connection issued by the ECAN president successful the southeast, Engr Joe Ubani, and the secretary, Comrade Chris Okpara, that the radical successful the 9 LGAS that marque up the Aba Ring-fenced Area were not affected by the atrocious nationalist experience.

The Aba Ring-fenced Area does not beryllium connected the nationalist grid due to the fact that it receives powerfulness from the 188MW Geometric Power Plant successful the Osisioma Industrial Zone of Aba, the radical said.

Aba Power Electric Ltd is simply a subsidiary of the Geometric Power group.

ECAN explained that, dissimilar different energy organisation companies successful Nigeria, Aba Power, Nigeria’s 12th DisCo, obtains supplies from the nationalist grid lone erstwhile its supplier experiences issues similar earthy state shortages.

The relation stated: “This shows that portion Aba Power uses the nationalist transmission web arsenic a backup, the 11 bequest DisCos beryllium wholly connected it, contempt its superior problems of aged age, mediocre maintenance, fragility, and constricted capacity”.

Recalling that erstwhile helium was the curate of Power successful 2012, Professor Bart Nnaji, the laminitis and president of the Geometric Power group, started to physique a 756KV grid to service arsenic a 2nd transmission network, ECAN said the task that the Federal Executive Council had approved was abandoned aft Nnaji resigned successful protestation against the mode successful which the Power Holding of Nigeria (PHCN) assets were being privatized.

The consumers praised the curate of Power, Chief Adebayo Adelabu, for considering reviving the project. “A concern wherever the full federation was connected Wednesday plunged into acheronian but the Aba Ring-fenced Area”, ECAN noted, “underlines the imperative of an alternate grid. A 2nd transmission web volition marque for vigor information and nationalist economical progress, arsenic Professor Nnaji has been arguing,” helium stressed.

Wednesday’s grid illness was the archetypal clip Nigeria was experiencing a nationwide powerfulness nonaccomplishment this year, though it recorded 12 failures successful 2024.

Causes of the grid illness scope from gangly iroko trees touching the transmission web successful places similar Ondo State to a responsibility successful immoderate of the networked powerfulness plants to aged property and mediocre maintenance.