Energy Worth with Agency Report There are strong indications that a new metering policy of the federal government, known as Meter Asset Providers (MAP) regulation, aimed at achieving full metering of electricity consumption in the country within three years, may suffer serious setback as a result of mounting liquidity crisis in the nation’s power sector,…
SABIC and ExxonMobil announced today that they have created a new joint venture to advance development of the Gulf Coast Growth Ventures project, a 1.8 million tonne ethane cracker currently planned for construction in San Patricio County, Texas. The facility will also include a monoethylene glycol unit and two polyethylene units. “We are very pleased…
Emmanuel Katepa is the Chief Executive Officer/Managing Director of Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC), a core investor in the privatised Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC). In this interview, Katepa speaks of AEDC’s strategies to raise monthly remittances for bulk energy from the Generation Companies (GenCos) from 35 per cent to 60 per cent before year end….
Latest documents obtained from Nigeria’s power System Operator indicated that peak electricity generation crossed the 5,000-megawatt mark last week. According to the SO, a peak power generation of 5,090MW was recorded on April 26, 2018, which was the highest quantum of electricity ever witnessed on the national grid since the beginning of this year. An…
Benin Electricity Distribution Company, joined the rest of the world to mark the World Safety Day. The campaign which kicked-off at the head office of BEDC is geared towards improving the safety and health of young workers. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has reported. The theme of this year’s campaign is “Generation Safe and…
The House of Representatives Committee on Power and Privatisation has commended Jos Disco on its customers enumeration and metering programmes. The committee made the commendation during a two days routine visitation to the company. Speaking at the occasion, the committee chairman, Shadimu Mutiu, said the committee on Privatization and Commercialisation was impressed by the metering…
Energy Worth with Agency Report Following a four-week ultimatum to among others, stop crazy or estimated bills, improve services or gets its main office shut down by civil society organisations in Kaduna recently, the management of Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company (KADECO), has said that the overbillings cannot be avoided in its operations. It explained that…
As part of measures undertaken to resolve interrupted and inadequate energy supplies to power some critical industrial operations in Ogun and Lagos states, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has begun construction of 203km new power lines and five power sub-stations located in five locations across Ogun state. BusinessDay reports that the $200 million power…
Nigeria’s largest electricity distribution company, Ikeja Electric, has once again demonstrated her commitment to high safety standards by achieving a zero fatality record in Q1 of 2018 according to the safety report released by the Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency (NEMSA). In the report which covers the eleven (11) Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) and the…
By Energy Worth The management of Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JEDC) Plc, has disclosed that it is targeting about one million customers in Benue, Bauchi, Gombe and Plateau states by the end of 2018 from the current over 472,000 customers. The Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Alhaji Mohammed Gidado Modibbo, disclosed this in Bauchi…
