We’ve restored grid after temporary disturbance — TCN
by The Eagle Online · The Eagle OnlineThe Transmission Company of Nigeria says it has restored the national grid after experiencing temporary disturbance at about 8:15am on Saturday.
Ndidi Mbah, the General Manager in charge of Public Affairs of TCN, made this known in a statement issued in Abuja on Saturday.
Mbah said that TCN engineers at Jebba successfully carried out switchings by isolating the faulty current transformer.
She said that the engineers had equally reconfigured the busbar arrangement, restoring power supply to the station and other parts of the grid.
She said according to the report from the National Control Center, the bus section of a current transformer exploded at the 330kV Jebba Transmission Substation.
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Mbah added: “As expected, the protection system was activated, and this promptly opened the busbars to curtail the explosion, thereby, preventing outbreak of fire and further damage to adjacent equipment.
“The action of the protection system led to a temporary disturbance on the grid.”
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