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Nigeria Hopes On $3bn World Bank Loan To Rescue Failing Power...
Nigeria is looking towards a $3billion World Bank loan to tackle mounting debt in the power sector that risks the collapse of companies running...
Power: 330/132/33KV Akure Transmission Substation Ready – TCN
Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has announced the completion of the 330kV Akure Transmission Substation in Ondo State. The company also said it is...
World Bank, AfDB Fund Mini-Grids in 6 Nasarawa Communities
Nigeria Electrification Project (NEP) is building new solar hybrid mini-grids in Nasarawa state under the Nigerian Electrification Agency (REA), with funding from the World...
NCDMB, Bayelsa sign Power Purchase Agreement on 10MW IPP
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, and the Bayelsa State Government signed have signed a Power Purchase Agreement, PPA, for the delivery...
NLC will resist increase in electricity tariff – Wabba
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says it will deploy the industrial mechanisms granted in labour laws for the defense of workers' rights to resist...
Experts want new minister to address crisis in power sector
Experts in the power sector have called on the newly-appointed Minister of Power, Mr. Abubakar Aliyu, to do everything possible to address the crisis...
Smart Cities Market Boom: 500 Urban Areas to Adopt Digital Twin...
Over 500 urban areas around the world are expected to adopt Digital Twin technology by 2025, a research has revealed.
The increased demand for Digital...
DisCos Lose 30% of Nine Months’ Revenue to Unpaid Bill
The Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED) said that electricity consumers in the country paid N362bn out of the N520bn billed them from January...
FG Suspends Power Tariff Hike
...Says it subsidizes 55% of low users
The Federal Government on Thursday ordered the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission...
No Approval for 50% Electricity Tariff Increase, NERC Says
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has said that it did not grant any approval to electricity distribution companies in the country to increase...
Consumers to Get Refund for Meter Payment, NERC Assures
Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC has said that electricity customers who paid for meters under the Meter Asset Provider scheme will be refunded.
NERC through...
Pan African Mine Set to Go Solar, Appoints EPC Contractor
Energy transition is indeed being witnessed in different sectors of the global economy. In South Africa, Gold producer Pan African Resources Plc (LON:PAF) has...
Oyigbo Youths Threaten to Stop Transcorp Takeover of Afam Power Plant
Youths in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers state – hosts to the Afam Power Station, on Tuesday threatened to stop the takeover of...
FG Adds 60MW Hydropower Plant to National Grid
The Federal Government, Friday added a new hydropower plant to the nation’s power grid. The addition of Dadin Kowa Hydropower Plant has brought the...
NERC Orders Discos to Disconnect Customers Rejecting Prepaid Meters
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has ordered power distribution companies (DisCos) to start disconnecting electricity consumers who reject meters.
The NERC made this known...
FG Vows to Take Tough Measures Against DisCos, Agents Selling Prepaid...
The Federal Government reiterated its resolve to mete stiff measures to any of the power distribution companies (DisCos) or their agents selling prepaid meters...
Fresh Review of Discos’ Capital Expenses, Tariff Imminent
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) may again review the capital expenditure of the 11 respective electricity distribution companies (Discos) in the country’s power...
25m Nigerians to Own 5m Solar Systems at N4,000 Monthly –...
The Presidency said it would deliver five million solar systems to 25 million Nigerians previously not connected to the national grid through Solar Home...
Power Sector Challenge is Transmission, Not Gas Supply – Kyari
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has said that the major challenge now facing the power...
FG Can No Longer Bear Electricity Tariff Shortfalls – Buhari
The President Muhammadu Buhari has said the tariff shortfalls in the power sector being borne by the Federal Government are no longer sustainable.
Buhari said...
