’Femi AsuThe nation’s power generation fell to a record low on Tuesday following the collapse of the national grid on Monday night. “System disturbance: This is to announce that the grid experienced system collapse at 23:44hrs on 15th April. The system operator put the nation’s installed generation capacity at 12,910.40MW; available capacity at 7,652.60MW; transmission wheeling capacity at 8,100MW; and the peak generation ever attained at 5,375MW. In February, the TCN announced that the national grid successfully transmitted a new power generation peak of 5,375MW on February 7, 2019, at 9 pm. Spinning reserve is the generation capacity that is online but unloaded and that can respond within 10 minutes to compensate for generation or transmission outages.

Source: Punch April 18, 2019 02:26 UTC