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From Isaac Anumihe, Abuja
Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and other parts of Nigeria have experienced sudden darkness following a system disturbance which affected the national grid in the afternoon.
In a statement, both the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) and Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) reported a disturbance in the grid, so causing a power outage across their franchise areas.
So far, the grid managers, Nigeria System Operator (NISO), has not responded to the report.
Recall that early this year, NISO moved to curb the regular collapse of the national grid, following the digitisation of the electricity supply system.
To this effect, Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NISO, Abdu Bello Mohammad said during the unveiling of the NISO logo in Abuja, that Nigeria is synchronising its electricity system with West Africa Power Pool (WAPP).
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He stated that Nigeria was one of the countries that initiated WAPP adding that other countries had left it behind.
NISO, Mohammed, said, did not emerge from thin air. It was born out of reform mandated by law and driven by a national imperative for transparency, neutrality, and reliability in grid operations and electricity market coordination.
“The Electricity Act 2023, which repealed the Electric Power Sector Reform Act (EPSRA) of 2005, did not just change the rules, it changed the structure. And in that structure, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) took a bold and necessary step to ring-fence the Independent System Operator (ISO) functions from Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and birth a fully independent system operator. A system operator with a name, a face, and a mission of its own” he said.
