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National grid crashes to zero megawatts

The national grid crashed to zero megawatts (MW) at 10:51am on Monday, causing a nationwide outage.

The national electricity grid as of 10am on Monday had 3,712MW generated from 21 Generation Companies (GenCos) before it dropped to 0MW one hour after.

According to the information from the System Operations, only a section of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Afam IV, was on the grid but with zero supply as of 12noon.

This is the 7th time in 2022 alone, that the national grid has collapsed.

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