In the last five months, Nigeria has recorded more than 15 power system collapses, the Federal Government has said.
In a bid to address the problem, the government on Monday inaugurated a 13-member Technical Investigative Panel on System Collapse.
The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, ordered the panel to complete the assignment within two weeks, stressing that the incessant collapse of electricity infrastructure across the country was becoming worrisome.
He said, “The high rate of system collapses in recent time, which has given rise to more than 15 collapses in the last five months, calls for a critical look.
“The technical investigative panel is, therefore, being constituted to investigate the causes of these collapses and proffer solutions aimed at forestalling future occurrences. Though a technical investigative panel, it is expected that it will also address human lapses where found.”
The terms of reference for the panel, Nebo said, included the determination of the immediate and remote causes of system collapses and review of all the collapses that had occurred from January to date.
Others are re-evaluation of the performance and effectiveness of the power grid’s protection system in the period under review; and recommend measures to further strengthen the protection mechanism, as well as to consider any system collapse related issues.
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