Nigeria has recorded line tripping,not system collapse since the beginning of this year, the Transmission Company of Nigeria has claimed
The company clarified this in a statement on Saturday.
”TCN management will like to reiterate that there has been no system collapse this year.On Feb. 12, when the Omotosho-Ikeja West 330 Kilo Volt (kV) transmission line tripped, the Benin-Egbin 330kV line was on a scheduled outage for mechanical line tracing.
”The tripping resulted in a cascaded outage, causing loss of supply within Abuja, Lagos, and Osogbo axis,”it added.
According to the company, full restoration of bulk power supply to affected areas had since been completed.
It noted that the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) was being regulated by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and governed by industry documents.
”The documents reserve for the National Control Centre System Operator or her designated back-up, the National Supplementary Control Centre (SNCC) has the exclusive right to provide information to the public about events and status of the grid,”it stated
