Energy

Blackout as national grid collapses for first time in 2025

Nigerians were on Saturday, January 11, 2025, thrown into a nationwide blackout following the collapse of the national power grid.

This is the first time the national grid will collapse in 2025, following a series of system collapse in 2024.

It was gathered that the grid collapsed at about 2 p.m. on Saturday.

National grid collapses for 12th time in 2024

It was learnt that power generation dropped from 2111.01 megawatts as of 2 p.m. to 390.20 MW by 3 p.m.

“National grid suffers major collapse… First in 2025,” Energy podcast confirmed the blackout via a post on Saturday.

“Restoration has begun… Currently generating 302MW as of 02:40 pm,” it said in another post.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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