GRID COLLAPSE: THE TRUE PICTURE
As much as grid collapse is undesirable, its an event of safety instrumented systems doing what grid engineers want. Its indispensable for safety of lives & protection of equipment. It is our current best approach to Under-Frequency Load Shedding.
The most common cause of under frequency load shedding in Nigeria is unexpected trip or loss of supply from a single or multiple power stations due to equipment failure. This borders on reliability engineering and it will remain a problem until God delivers the world from China.
Big countries compensate for under frequency disturbance with huge generation & expensive smart grid. Until we have intelligent busbar in our Substations, we must choose between grid collapse, which takes shorter time to restore, or lose power generation, nationwide, completely!
An online underwear seller swore that the grid should collapse & kill people working there.
A grip trip, which news media sensationalize as “collapse,” can be restored within 24 hours. But a hot-restart of a power station from blackout, zero energy state, may take up to 12 days!
Politically or geographically, decentralization of d grid or whatever that means isn't an engineering solution. It is a garrulous suggestion in an ethnically fragile federal system, where politicians instigate agitation for resource control or separation when they lose elections.
We cannot even agree on how to amend the constitution. Within the purview of engineering solutions, increased power generation wont also put an end to grid collapse. Grid collapse will only end in Nigeria when we can seamlessly combine adequate power generation with...
adaptive under frequency load shedding, where disturbance magnitude for a response based or an event-based outage is treated differently. Event-based, for power imbalance; response-based, for swings, premised on rate of change of frequency, on demand or shortage of power supply.
I'm not an electrical engineer but I’m competent to share on d subject based on my years of experience in Utilities and cross function responsibilities in power generation. Officials who have responsibilities to make statements on issues when events occur hardly do so in Nigeria.
This is because apart from fakenews agencies, there are many social media experts proposing solutions to problems they do not fully understand. There's nothing as amusing as appearing knowledgeable on a subject where you are completely uninformed; different from being ignorant.
Many do it for clout. Some do it to back opinion govt is incompetent. Majority do it shamefully for rhetoric that devalues in-country technical expertise. As implied by people who borrowed 500MB Glo data to tweet, all d people involved with electricity in Nigeria dont have sense.
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