TCN Disputes IKEDC’s Grid Instability Claim

The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has challenged the attribution of recent power outages in Lagos to grid instability, which was assigned to TCN by Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company, IKEDC. TCN stated that this claim is inaccurate and misleading.

According to TCN, the responsibility for determining the root cause of grid disturbances lies with the Nigerian Independent System Operator (NISO), as outlined in Section 67 of the Electricity Act 2023. IKEDC, like other market participants, lacks the authority to make such determinations.

TCN emphasized that the outages in question were not caused by grid instability but rather by other factors. The company reiterated that NISO has not attributed these outages to TCN, and therefore, IKEDC's claim is unfounded.