The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has announced the restoration of the national grid after its collapse on Saturday morning.
TCN’s General Manager, Public Affairs, Mrs Ndidi Mbah who announced the development in a statement, stated that the national grid experienced a temporary disturbance at about 8:15am, today, 19th Oct. 2024.
She explained that the report from the National Control Center (NCC), shows that “the bus section of a current transformer exploded at 330kV Jebba Transmission Substation and as expected, the protection system was activated, and this promptly opened the busbars to curtail the explosion, thereby preventing outbreak of fire and further damage to adjacent equipment.”
According to her, the action of the protection system led to a temporary disturbance on the grid.
She, however, disclosed that the company’s engineers at Jebba have successfully carried out switchings, isolating the faulty current transformer, and have equally reconfigured the busbar arrangement, restoring power supply to the station, and other parts of the grid.
