In view of the power outage currently experienced at our Agu Awka Injection Substation, which feeds Awka and other neighboring towns, the management of the South East Power Distribution Company, Enugu Electricity distribution Company (EEDC) sincerely apologize to its esteemed customers affected by this development, which is as a result of a breaker fault at the TCN Station, Awka.
This development affected the following Feeders:
1. Unizik 11KV
2. Awka Industrial 11KV
3. Ifite 11KV
4. Amansea 11KV
5. 33KV line which takes supply from Agu Awka Injection Substation to Enugu- Ukwu Injection Substation that feeds Abagana 11KV, Nimo 11KV, Ukpo 11KV and Enugu-Ukwu 11KV Feeders.
In addition, the Enugu Agidi 2.5MVA which radiates from Enugu-Ukwu 33KV line, supplying Enugu Ukwu and 33KV line from Agu Awka Injection Substation supplying Aguleri town are also affected.
“EEDC management wishes to inform its esteemed customers in Imo State that the current loss of supply being experienced in some localities in the state was due to an ongoing maintenance work on TR2 power transformer at TCN station in Egbu near Owerri’’, he said.
Ezeh noted that the maintenance, which commenced on Jan. 18 at 1 p.m. was expected to end at 4 p.m. same day, but unfortunately, due to some unforeseen circumstances it had lingered.
“The customers affected by this development are: All customers under Orlu District; All customers under New Owerri District; All Customers under Owerri District (excluding those on Ikenegbu, Egbu and FUT 11KV Feeders),’’ he said.
According to him, we are on TCN Engineers to fix the problem within the earliest possible time and sincerely regret any inconvenience this development must have caused our esteemed customers.
SIGNED;
EMEKA EZEH
HEAD, COMMUNICATIONS
ENUGU ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION COMPANY (EEDC)
Nigeria’s power grid collapsed on Tuesday night, leading to widespread blackout across the country.
It was gathered that the collapse was due to a fire incident on the Escravos Lagos Pipeline System of the Nigerian Gas Processing and Transportation Company Limited.
The incident led to a shutdown of the pipeline that supplies gas to six thermal power plants resulting to the collapse of the country’s electricity grid.
This was confirmed by the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing in a statement issued around 12:44am on Wednesday.
It said, “It is regrettable that after a sustained period of increasing production and distribution of power since September 2017 to date, the Nigerian Gas Processing and Transportation Company Ltd reported a fire incident on its Escravos Lagos Pipeline System near Okada, Edo State on Tuesday, January 2, 2018.
“The incident requires a shutdown of the pipeline supplying gas to Egbin 1,320megawatts; Olorunsogo NIPP 676MW; Olorunsogo 338MW; Omotosho NIPP 450MW; Omotosho 338 MW; and Paras 60MW power stations.
“The sudden loss of generation due to interruption in gas supply from these stations caused the national transmission grid to trip off around 20:20 on 2nd January 2018. The national transmission grid is owned and operated by the Transmission Company of Nigeria.”
The Transmission Company of Nigeria has announced a total collapse of the country’s electricity grid.
It, however, assured that restoration of the grid was at an advanced stage and explained that the total collapse was due to tripping of three generator units at Egbin power generation station.
The daily report on Nigeria’s power sector stated that the grid collapsed totally on Thursday, September 28, 2017, after the country generated 3,515 megawatts of electricity the preceding day.
The TCN said,
“A total system collapse was recorded on September 28, 2017 at 20:03Hrs.
“Reports obtained from stations and the sequence of events generated by the SCADA system indicated that the system collapse was triggered by the tripping of Egbin Units ST4, ST6 and ST5 at ‘20:03:15, 20:03:32 and 20:03:34’ respectively.
“By this incident, the Nigerian electric power grid lost generation completely before restoration commenced at 20:22Hrs.”
TCN added that the development had left the system vulnerable to the extent that perturbations of this magnitude resulted in severe system frequency dip that culminated in system collapse.
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