By Energy Worth Ondo State governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu of has called on distribution companies (DISCOS) in the country to provide meters for all homes to avoid rifts between their staff members and their consumers. Akeredolu said this on Monday, at the inauguration of 60MVA transformer at the 132/33kV transmission substation in Akure. He said…
Power Generation Companies in Nigeria (Gencos) are raising concern over increasing costs of power generation,even as express worry on grid operations, liquidity challenges, and access to forex to fund plant maintenance and other foreign currency denominated projects. These they said is a major threat to the electricity delivery in the country which could result in…
Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) have frowned at a N72 billion investment by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) in distribution networks without recourse to the DisCos managing the networks. In a statement on Sunday, the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED) feared customers may bear the cost of the unsolicited and wrongly directed investment as…
The Landlords and Tenants Association of Nigeria, on Tuesday protested against electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos). The protesters demanded a reasonable billing system and pre-paid meters. The demonstration started on Gasikya Road, Ijora, the group’s headquarters. Over 5,000 men and women, in uniform, marched on the Eko Electricity Distribution Plc’s headquarters in Marina, Lagos and Ikeja…
By Irina Slav French supermajor Total will increase Nigeria’s oil production by 200,000 bpd by the end of the year, a senior official from the local unit of the company said at an industry event, adding the increase will come from the development of the Egina Deep project. “Our plan is to maintain aggressive exploration…
By Julianne Geiger Citing $1 trillion in planned investments lost since the market downturn began, Aramco’s chairman of the board of directors Khalid Al-Falih issued a battle cry to the world’s other oil producers in its latest report, Saudi Aramco Annual Review 2017. The message: mature oil fields are seeing an increase in declining production…
By Energy Worth Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) said it has expended over N11.5bn worth of investments on metering, network upgrade and rehabilitation of its network operations. The company’s Managing Director, Mr. John Donnachie, who disclosed this during a media facility tour and equipment inspection in Ibadan, Oyo State, said part of the investment was…
By Energy Worth Nigeria is not about to experience a potential nationwide electricity blackout on account of recent disturbances on the operations of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), the Managing Director of TCN, Mr. Usman Mohammed, assured Nigerians Wednesday. Mohammed gave this assurance in Abuja during an interaction with newsmen on the recent protest…
In a rare feat, a Nigerian power production company, Top Two Group, is to build a 5-megawatts capacity power plant for a South African company, Country Bird Holdings, owners of Valentine Chickens Farms in Songa, Kwara State. Electricity Under the Memorandum of Understanding already signed between the Nigerian company and the South African entity, Top…
By Energy Worth Findings have shown that International oil companies and other operators are expected to spend a total of $40.7bn on the development of planned projects and $117.1bn on key announced projects in Nigeria and other sub-Saharan African countries between 2018 and 2025. GlobalData, a global data and analytics company, said in a new…
