Following constant blackouts in northern Nigeria, the electrical energy distribution firms within the area recorded roughly N74bn in losses between July and September, in keeping with knowledge from the Nigeria Electrical energy Regulatory Fee.
Within the first week of November, the nation witnessed its tenth nationwide grid collapse in 2024, plunging your entire nation into one more blackout.
Confirming this, the Transmission Firm of Nigeria acknowledged, “The nationwide grid skilled a partial disturbance at about 1:52 pm on November 5, 2024.”
“This adopted a sequence of line and generator trippings that precipitated grid instability and, consequently, a partial system disturbance,” TCN spokesperson Ndidi Mbah defined.
Recall that there have been three separate grid collapses in October, which paralyzed electrical energy provide in most components of the nation.
Nonetheless, energy blackouts in northern Nigeria have not too long ago worsened because of the vandalisation of the Shiroro-Kaduna transmission line, the key line supplying electrical energy to the area.
No fewer than 17 states within the area suffered whole blackouts for 2 weeks final month because of the disruption.
The affected states embody Kaduna, Kano, Jigawa, Gombe, Katsina, Sokoto, Zamfara, Bauchi, and Yobe. Others are Borno, Adamawa, Taraba, Niger, Plateau, Nasarawa, Kogi, and Benue.
As a result of these important energy disruptions, the 5 electrical energy distribution firms supplying the North recorded losses amounting to N73.68bn between July and September, in keeping with the Discos’ business efficiency reality sheet issued by NERC.
The affected energy corporations are the Kano, Abuja, Yola, Kaduna, and Jos Discos.
Over the three months, they issued electrical energy payments totalling N209bn however had been solely in a position to gather N135.6bn as energy distribution continued to say no.
In July, the Discos misplaced N19.7bn, having collected solely N46.4bn out of a doable N66.17bn.
The next month, losses worsened to N22.69bn, because the Discos collected solely N46.92bn out of the N69.61bn price of electrical energy payments issued to their clients.
In September, the losses additional elevated to N31.22bn, with the facility corporations amassing solely N42.31bn out of the N73.61bn billed.
Of all of the corporations, Kano Disco appeared the worst hit, dropping N11.88bn in September after amassing solely N3.07bn out of the N14.95bn price of electrical energy provided that month.
For the ninth month, different recorded losses embody N6.49bn (Abuja), N2.56bn (Yola), N3.8bn (Kaduna), and N6.57bn (Jos).
In August, Kano Disco misplaced N5.86bn, Abuja recorded N6.48bn in losses, Yola N1.81bn, Kaduna N3.45bn, and Jos N5.09bn.
The July losses included N5.61bn (Kano), N5.9bn (Abuja), N1.39bn (Yola), N3.43bn (Kaduna), and N3.4bn (Jos).
The Federal Authorities has attributed the constant energy disruptions in Northern Nigeria to assaults on electrical energy infrastructure.