The Nigerian government has revealed why the national grid collapse is inevitable.
It said the grid will continue to happen due to the deplorable state of the country’s power infrastructure.
The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu made this known while unveiling Hexing Livoltek, an electricity meter manufacturing company in the Lekki area of Lagos State.
Adelabu stated that power grids in different regions or states are needed to prevent incessant grid collapses.
He noted that having multiple power grids in each region and state would bring about stability.
He said: “This Electricity Act has decentralised power. It has enabled all the subnational governments, the state government and the local government, to be able to participate in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity.
“We all rely on a single national grid today; if there is a disturbance of the national grid, it affects all 36 states.
It shouldn’t be like that. This will enable us to start moving gradually towards having regional groups and possibly having state grids.
“And each of these grids will be removed and shielded from each other.
So, if there’s a problem with a particular grid, only the state where it belongs will be affected, not the entire nation. So, this is one of the impacts this Electricity Act will have.”
Speaking further on the grid collapse, he emphasised that the situation would be inevitable without sufficient investment in the sector.
“We keep talking about grid collapse. Grid collapse, grid collapse, whether it’s a total collapse, partial collapse, or slight trip-off.
This is almost inevitable as it is today, given the state of our power infrastructure, the infrastructure is in deplorable conditions, so why won’t you have trip-offs? Why won’t you have collapses, either total or partial? It will continue to remain like this until we can overhaul the entire infrastructure. What we do now is to make sure that we manage it,” he stated.
