Five days after, electricity grid collapses again, plunges supply to 42.7MW | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

By noon, only the Delta Power plant remained operational on the grid, generating 41MW, while Afam contributed 1.7 MW.

Seen as the weakest link in the power sector, which was privatised 10 years ago, the national grid is managed by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).

Data on grid collapse showed that in 2013, the country recorded 24 power system collapses.

The collapse incidents stood at 13 in 2014.

In 2015, the grid collapsed 10 times; in 2016, it rose to 28, while 21 cases were recorded in 2017.

Grid collapse cases in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 were 13, 11, four and four, respectively

While GenCos and DisCos had decried impact of grid collapse on machines and revenue, the prevailing situation remained a violation contract between TCN and Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to ensure that minimum of 5,000MW is transmitted through the grid under the Service Based Tariff (SBT)