Abuja residents, other to suffer blackout as TCN carries out maintenance on substation, see affected areas

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  • Electricity consumers successful selected areas are expected to endure a blackout for immoderate hours, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN)
  • This follows a scheduled attraction workout astatine 1 of the transmission substations, which volition impact proviso to 1 of the Discos
  • The TCN connection has besides listed the areas to beryllium affected by the blackout, which would past for astatine slightest six hours

Legit.ng writer Ruth Okwumbu-Imafidon has implicit a decennary of acquisition successful business reporting crossed integer and mainstream media.

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has told energy consumers to expect immoderate hours of blackout starting from Tuesday, May 20, 2025.

This is due to the fact that the institution has scheduled a attraction workout astatine 1 of its transmission substations.

The workout started astatine 10:30 AM and volition past done to 5:00 PM, TCN announced successful an X post. The authoritative connection signed by the General Manager, Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, apologized to the nationalist for the inconveniences to beryllium caused by the attraction exercise.

TCN warns Nigerians of expected blackout, lists affected areasThe affected areas volition endure astatine slightest six and a fractional hours of darkness. Photo credit: Pius Utomi Ekpei/TCN
Source: UGC

Blackout expected successful respective areas

TCN was formed aft the unbundling of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) and National Electric Power Authority (NEPA), and is liable for transmitting bulk energy powerfulness from the powerfulness procreation companies (GenCos) to the organisation companies (DisCos).

The planned attraction volition construe into hours of energy blackout for consumers successful respective areas.

The connection announcing the workout work successful part;

“The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) notifies the nationalist that a planned attraction workout has been scheduled astatine its Lokoja 330/132/33kV Transmission Substation today, May 20, 2025, from 10:30 americium to 5:00 pm.“During the period, TCN's attraction unit volition simultaneously transportation retired attraction connected a 60MVA 132/33kV transformer and 150MVA 330/132/33kV transformer successful the substation.”

List of areas to beryllium affected by the blackout

The TCN connection besides confirmed that the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) volition not beryllium capable to offtake powerfulness from the 2 affected transformers, for astatine slightest 6 hours, 30 minutes.

This means that customers successful the pursuing areas volition person to endure the blackout during these hours.

  • Kaduna Junction
  • Kogi Poly
  • Zango Town
  • Lokoja Town
  • CBN

Nigerians endure blackout owed to a strategy outage

Recall that immoderate parts of Nigeria were thrown into acheronian after the nationalist grid experienced a strategy disturbance connected Friday, March 7, 2025.

Another six-hour blackout expected arsenic  TCN commences attraction    connected  transmission substationThe Minister of Power has called for much concern into the powerfulness assemblage to code the issues of recurrent blackouts. Photo credit: Adebayo Adelabu
Source: Twitter

It was gathered that the highest procreation was 5284MW astatine 5 americium earlier dropping beneath 1,000MW astatine 2 pm, causing a blackout.

Legit.ng reported that galore procreation plants were yet to reconstruct proviso to the nationalist grid arsenic procreation dropped to 803MW astatine 4 PM.

TCN explains the blackout successful Lagos

In related news, the Transmission Company of Nigeria explained the blackout experienced successful Ikeja and different parts of Lagos state.

TCN explained that transmission enactment cuts were liable for the powerfulness proviso outages, arsenic immoderate lines snapped betwixt Towers 420 to 422 connected the Omotoso – Ikeja West 330kV transmission enactment connected Saturday, March 9, 2025.

The institution announced connected its X grip that engineers and materials person been deployed to the areas to hole the contented and repair the snapped lines.

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