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How fire outbreak at Kainji led to nationwide blackout — Adelabu
Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, has disclosed the cause of the nationwide blackout that happened in the early hours of Thursday.
The minister said there was an explosion that led to a fire outbreak at Kainji/Jebba located in the North-central part of Nigeria.
Adelabu in a series of tweets on X platform on Thursday said, “At 00:35Hrs this morning, Fir£ outbreak with explosion sound was observed on Kainji/Jebba 330kV line 2 (Cct K2J) blue phase CVT and Blue phase line Isolator of Kainji/Jebba 330kV line1 was observed burning.
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This led to sharp drops in frequency from 50.29Hz to 49.67 Hz at 0:35:06Hrs with Jebba generation loss of 356.63MW.
He also gave assurance that the problem would be fixed saying, “We are on top of the situation and speedy restoration is in progress. The fir£ has been fully arrested and over half of the connections are now up and the rest will be fully restored in no time.
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