Nigerias national power grid suffered another disruption yesterday, the second in four days, triggering widespread outages that disrupted businesses and renewed concerns over the economic cost of power instability, even as the Nigerian Independent System Operator NISO described the incident as a partial system disturbance.
The disruption occurred at about 10:48am, leaving electricity distribution companies DisCos without load allocation and plunging several parts of the country into darkness. Data from the system operator showed that power generation, which was above 4,000 megawatts MW the previous day, dropped sharply, with all 12 DisCos initially recording zero allocation.
