Grid instability not responsible for IE Band A outage — TCN.
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The management of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) on Friday said grid instability was not responsible for the Ikeja Electric (IE) Band A outage reported by the company on Nov.
Ndidi Mba, the General Manager of the Corporate Communication Unit of TCN, disclosed this in a statement in Lagos.
According to her, TCN described the attribution as inaccurate and misleading, saying that the determination of the root cause of disturbances, shortfalls, and interruptions on the national grid was not the responsibility of a Distribution Company (DisCo). “By virtue of Section 67 of the Electricity Act 2023, the determination of the root cause of disturbances, shortfalls, and interruptions on the national grid falls exclusively within the defined functions of the Nigerian Independent System Operator (NISO). “IE, like every other market participant, has no authority to make such determinations, and NISO has made no such attribution of the outages in IE’s notice to TCN,” she said. Mba said that NISO had already explained the situation, attributing the current decline in power generation to gas supply constraints to thermal power stations and reduced output from hydroelectric stations due to lower reservoir inflows.
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