The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, has explained why the national grid collapse is inevitable, citing the deplorable state of the country’s power infrastructure.
Speaking on Wednesday while unveiling Hexing Livoltek, an electricity meter manufacturing company in the Lekki area of Lagos State, Adelabu stated that power grids in different regions or states are needed to prevent incessant grid collapses.
He noted that having multiple power grids in each region and state would bring about stability.
“This Electricity Act has decentralised power. It has enabled all the subnational governments, the state government and the local government, to be able to participate in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity.
“We all rely on a single national grid today; if there is a disturbance of the national grid, it affects all 36 states. It shouldn’t be like that. This will enable us to start moving gradually towards having regional groups and possibly having state grids.
“And each of these grids will be removed and shielded from each other. So, if there’s a problem with a particular grid, only the state where it belongs will be affected, not the entire nation. So, this is one of the impacts this Electricity Act will have,” Adelabu said.