Blackout hits Lagos as TCN announces maintenance exercise

Parts of Lagos volition acquisition a blackout connected Tuesday arsenic the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, carries retired a planned attraction workout connected its Ikeja West/Ejigbo 132kV Transmission Line 1 astatine the Ejigbo Transmission Substation.

TCN disclosed this successful a announcement connected Tuesday.

According to the company, the outage volition past from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. connected Tuesday.

TCN explained that the outage would impact astir 40 megawatts of load astatine the Ejigbo Transmission Substation during the attraction period.

“The outage is indispensable to alteration TCN’s attraction unit to transportation retired regular attraction connected the Ikeja West/Ejigbo 132kV Transmission Line 1.

“The Ikeja West/Ejigbo 132kV Transmission Line 2 volition besides beryllium taken retired of work to supply a harmless moving abstraction for the attraction crew.

“However, Airport load volition beryllium diverted to the Isolo Transmission Line to minimise the interaction of the outage,” TCN stated.

Blackout hits Lagos arsenic TCN announces attraction exercise