The Transmission Company of Nigeria has disclosed that its Alagbon Transmission Substation, has been gutted by fire.
This was disclosed by through a statement signed by TCN General Manager, Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, on Monday.
He stated that the fire incident happened around 4:32 p.m., and that the incident affected one of its 60MVA power transformers in the substation.
The on-duty operator reportedly heard a loud crash from the switchyard and went to investigate, where he discovered flames beneath the transformer’s cooling fans and fins.
The firm claims that the fire spread despite its best efforts to extinguish it with the substation’s fire extinguisher because oil began flowing from the transformer and igniting the blaze.
As a result, the engineer shut down the 300 MVA 330/132/33KV transformer’s substation power and contacted the Federal Fire Service in Onikan and the Lagos State Fire Service in Dolphin Estate.
At 7:35 a.m., the fire was extinguished by the fire department.
From the initial assessment, TCN said the transformer can be repaired, and presently, the situation is under control.
At 7:27 a.m., the station’s regular supply was reinstated together with the restoration of every available transformer.
TCN expressed regret for the tragedy and promised to start a thorough inspection of the damaged transformer right away.
“All customers feeding from Alagbon 330/132/33KV substation will have supply tonight. The situation is under control, and TCN will do a comprehensive check of the affected transformer immediately to enable it to properly assess the transformer for repair work.
“We are truly saddened by this incident, especially as the company had operated from the beginning of this year to date without any system collapse or major incident such as this.
“Even as we have already mobilised our engineers to commence the transformer assessment and repair work immediately, we will endeavour to ascertain the trigger of this fire incident with the view to forestall such incidents in our substations”, the statement read.
