{"id":17755,"date":"2019-05-10T08:34:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T08:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=17755"},"modified":"2019-05-10T08:34:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T08:34:10","slug":"blackout-continues-in-parts-of-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=17755","title":{"rendered":"Blackout persists in parts of Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"

The total blackout that befell Abuja and neighbouring states that\u00a0 for several hours on Thursday continued into Friday amidst confusion among residents of the Federal Capital Territory as to what triggered.
\nWorse, many in the city who were just coming out of load shedding by the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) groaned over loses.
\nThe PUNCH in a report attributed the blackout to the collapse of the country\u2019s power grid, which led to a near zero allocation to the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC).
\nAEDC is the power firm that supplies electricity to the Federal Capital Territory, Nasarawa, Niger and parts of Kogi states.
\nThe firm\u2019s General Manager, Corporate Communication, Oyebode Fadipe, told PUNCH that the challenge on the grid started since Wednesday.
\nHe explained that AEDC got as little as 20 megawatts of electricity for the most part of Thursday.
\nIt was also observed that most parts of the FCT and neighbouring states of Niger, Kogi and Nasarawa were all in darkness in the morning, afternoon and evening of Thursday.
\nPower was restored later in the night in some of the affected areas, as Fadipe confirmed that the blackout was due to the instability of the country\u2019s grid.
\nHe said, \u201cThe grid has witnessed some form of instability and this led to a severe reduction in our allocation, dropping from about 400MW to 20MW.
\n\u201cThis, of course, is the reason for the blackout in most of our franchise areas today (Thursday). The TCN (Transmission Company of Nigeria) also alerted us about it.\u201d
\nFadipe added, \u201cThe situation, however, recorded some improvement later in the night, as more allocation was given to us from the grid.\u201d
\nRecall that Nigeria Everyday <\/strong>reported last week that after keeping some Abuja communities without electricity for 72 hours, the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), came out with a comprehensive explanation that its supply feeders from Kukwaba transmission station supplying power to the communities will experience load shedding, pending replacement of the faulty breaker in the station.
\nThere have been loud grumblings among residents around the identified areas as to why the load-shedding has become a recurrent one along the areas bordering the Umaru Musa Yar\u2019Adua Way leading to the airport, especially when there is a heavy downpour.
\nIn a statement on Saturday, AEDC\u2019s General Manager, Corporate Communications, Mr Fadipe Oyebode, listed the feeders on load shedding to include \u00a0L31 feeder that supplies \u00a0Games village, national stadium, Jewel apartments, Indoor complex, \u00a0Human Rights Radio and its environs.
\nFeeder L32, that supplies customers in Trademore Estate Lugbe, Lugbe Across, Lugbe Zones one to nine, Ako and \u00a0Aso estates would also experience loadsheding.
\nThe L33 feeder, feeding consumers \u00a0in Durumi district, American International School, Vehicle Inspection Office (VIO), Christ Embassy and its environs was also affected.
\nFeeder \u00a0L35 supplying \u00a0railway station and L36 feeding \u00a0Idu Industrial Layout, Kuchingoro, karmajiji villages, Coca cola and other neighborhoods would \u00a0also be loadsheded.
\nOther consumers to be affected, according to Oyebode are in consumers in and around Pyakasa, Sun City, Moccido Housing Estate, Brains and Hammer, African University of Science and Technology.
\nHe was optimistic\u00a0that the challenge that resulted in the loadsheding \u00a0would be resolved.
\nRecall that almost a week ago, there was a fire outbreak at a transmission station in the Apo area of the city. It is not clear if there is a nexus between the incident and present situation.
\nThe burnt transformer was part of those that feed the 33kV feeders of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company.
\n\u201cIt\u00a0is, however,\u00a0still early for TCN to determine if the\u00a0burnt\u00a0transformer\u00a0can be salvaged,\u201d the\u00a0General Manager, Public Affairs, TCN, Ndidi Mbah, said then.
\nIt was learnt that the fire started at about 1.30pm from a transformer in the substation and persisted for some hours.
\nThe Transmission Company of Nigeria confirmed the incident and stated that one of the 45MVA 132\/33kV power transformers in the substation was involved.
\nIt said the burnt transformer was part of those that feed the 33kV feeders of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company.
\nTCN\u2019s General Manager, Public Affairs, TCN, Ndidi Mbah, said the fire resulted from a\u00a0direct fault from one of Abuja Disco\u2019s 33kV feeders\u00a0which had\u00a0a history of incessant trippings, as the\u00a033kV lacked protection.
\nThe transmission company said it was equally\u00a0investigating the possibility of\u00a0transformer protection\u00a0failure on its\u00a045MVA power\u00a0transform<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The total blackout that befell Abuja and neighbouring states that\u00a0 for several hours on Thursday continued into Friday amidst confusion among residents of the Federal Capital Territory as to what triggered. Worse, many in the city who were just coming out of load shedding by the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) groaned over loses. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}