Nigeria hit by widespread blackout in 'total system collapse'

[muriel_volestrangler]

Nigeria has been hit by widespread power cuts following a "total system collapse", electricity distribution companies say.
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Some supplies have been restored but only a tiny fraction of normal consumption in Africa's most populous country.
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This is the most serious such outage for a year - the West African country's grid collapsed at least four times in 2022, which the authorities blamed on technical problems.
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On Thursday at around 10:30 local time (09:30 GMT) power levels rose from zero to 273MW, which is still well below the daily average of 4,100MW, data from the Transmission Company of Nigeria showed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-66810202

[flying_wahini]

1. Four times a year? Then not unlike Texas.

Calm down; I live here.

[peppertree]

3. To think Nigeria has sometimes been called the Texas of Africa

But of course - many times worse.

[Eugene]

2. Nigeria restoring power after nationwide blackouts

Nigeria restoring power after nationwide blackouts (Reuters)

LAGOS (Reuters) -Nigeria's electricity distribution companies reported "a total system collapse" on Thursday after a fire on a major transmission line, causing widespread blackouts across Africa's biggest economy, before power slowly started to return.

Adebayo Adelabu, minister for power, said fire had caused an explosion on a transmission line connecting the Kainji and Jebba power plants in north central Niger state, tripping the grid.

"The fire has been fully arrested and over half of the connections are now up and the rest will be fully restored in no time," Adelabu said in a statement.

Power generation fell to zero in the early hours but had risen to 1,341 megawatts (MW) by 1400 GMT, still well below the daily average of 4,100 MW, data from the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) showed.

https://news.yahoo.com/nigeria-power-grid-collapse-causes-104659024.html