The
Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) on Monday said that Nigeria’s overall
power generation has dropped to 3,763.4 megawatts (MW) from 4,243.4MW following
the vandalism of one of its transmission towers in the eastern supply loop, ThisDay reports.
It said in a
statement that the tower, No. 62, which is along the Okpai-Onitsha 330kV double
circuit transmission line and evacuates power generated from the Okpai Power
Station in Delta State, was vandalised.
The statement
disclosed that the incident, which took place at Asaba Uchi, Ndokwa East Local
Government on Tuesday, November 10, has resulted in the reduction of available
power to the national grid by about 480MW.
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