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Group Urges S/West Govs To Take Advantage Of Removal Of Power...
A group, Development Agenda for Western Nigeria , Commission, has called on state governments in the south western Nigeria to take advantage of the...
NERC, NBET’s 5000mw Deal With Power Vendors, Regulators Collapses
The Association of Power Generation Companies (APGC), an umbrella body of the Gencos, has confirmed the collapse of the anticipated minimum 5000 megawatts (mw)...
N1trn Debt Payment Top Gencos’ Demand From Nigeria’s Incoming Govt
Power Generation Companies (Gencos) have called on the incoming federal administration to, as a matter of urgency, defray the N1trillion owed the sector, hasten...
Proshare Analysts Rap Incoming Federal Administration On Power Sector Reforms
As Nigeria’s President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, prepares to assume office on May 29, 2023, analysts are saying he must consider the power sector in...
President Buhari Inaugurates Maidugiri Emergency Power Project
President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the Maiduguri Emergency Power Project. He said the project is a testament of the zeal by his administration to...
Snake Island Free Trade Zone Adopts Solar Power Supply
A rooftop solar power plant has been adopted for the Snake Island Integrated Free Zone in Lagos.The solar power plant is the first step...
PENGASSAN Calls For Revocation Of DisCos’ Licences
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), has expressed the displeasure of the association over the disappointing performance of Electricity...
Mainstream Energy Solutions Wins Selected Bidder for Zungeru Hydropower Plant
Nigerian government has announced Mainstream Energy Solutions as the preferred bidder for the Zungeru hydroelectric power plant concession.
MESL reportedly won the 700MW power plan...
Optimization Of National Grid Critical To Energy Sustainability
Managing Director of General Electric Power, in charge of Gas Power Plant (Anglophone West Africa), Mohammed Mijindadi, said full optimisation of Nigeria’s national grid...
GE to Supply 500MW Power to National Grid by Q2 This...
GE Gas Power has said it is looking forward to pushing close to 500 megawatts (MW) of additional power into the national electricity grid...
Otedola Votes N40bn To Buy FG’s iPower Plant.
The Nigerian government is set to sell five National Integrated Power Projects (NIPPs), and have shortlisted 16 firms. Among the front runners is Geregu...
Nigeria, Egypt Sign Pact On Electricity Sector Development
Nigerian minister of electricity, Mr. Abubakar D. Aliyu and his Egyptian counterpart, Mohamed Shaker have signed a memorandum of understating (MoU) aimed at enhancing...
POWER GENERATION DIPS TO 916MW AND 2,200MW
The attention of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has been drawn to two consecutive false publications by The Nation newspaper of Monday, 16th...
TCN’s Wheeling Capacity And Transmitting Peak Generation
TCN's wheeling capacity as simulated by its system planning department is 8,100MW and since the simulation was carried out, TCN says it has continued...
TCN Working To Restore Power To Abuja Central Area
Transmission Company of Nigeria has assured that its engineers are working assiduously to put in place a bypass from the Katampe Substation to...
TCN Energizes 2x60mva 132/33kv Gwarinpa GIS Transmission Substation
…adds over 98mw to the grid
The Transmission Company of Nigeria has energized the brand new 2x60mva, 132/33kv Gas Insulated Substation (GIS) at Gwarinpa.
The...
IEA Optimistic About Energy Transition
…Since the IEA laid out its roadmap for net-zero 2050, oil consumption has only increased.
The International Energy Agency has said in its latest World...
TCN Scores Self High Over Its 5-Point Agenda
The chief executive officer of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, (TCN), Mr. Sule Ahmed Abdulaziz, has scored the management of the TCN high, stressing...
COP27: Group Urges Nigeria To shift Investments Toward Renewables
A civil society organisation (CSO), Don’t Gas Africa, has called on Nigeria and other African countries to abandon investment in oil production and focus...
TCN Energizes New 150mva Interbus Transformer in Delta IV Substation, Ugehelli
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) announced yesterday that it had successfully installed and energized a new 150MVA 330/132/33kV Interbus transformer (IBTR) at Delta...
