Military barracks among highest power debtors –ANED Director Sunday Oduntan
The major culprit is the Army in terms of military formations. If you go and check with the Ministry of Defence, there are provisions in their budgets
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Nigeria’s power transmission capacity now 8,500MW’
Reacting to concerns raised by Gencos that TCN did not have adequate capacity to evacuate the quantum of power produced by electricity generation companies, Oluwagbenga debunked the claim.
Nigeria needs 200,000MW to meet electricity needs of its over 200 million population —ANED
Oduntan, who stated that Nigeria would require 200,000mw of power generation to meet the electricity need of its 200 million citizens, added that going by international standards, 1,000mw was needed to serve one million people.
Power generation rises to 4,089MW, as inadequate facilities hinder distribution
“While the DisCos are not exonerated from responsibility for performance failures, it would be unrealistic to reach related conclusions without taking into consideration the factors that have been listed previously, as well as the FGN’s contributions to these challenges.
Power distributors now selling govt’s free meters, consumers allege
Power consumers have raised the alarm that power distribution companies were now selling the free meters that were provided for electricity users by the Federal Government.
$2bn power project: Fresh threats, as FG, Siemens take conflicting positions
But it is not yet clear if Siemens is willing to accept this responsibility as the firm rebuffed efforts to get them to confirm the development.
No decision yet on two-month ‘free electricity’, says Power Minister
The Minister of Power, Mr Saleh Mamman, has said that the Federal Government has yet to take a decision to supply free electricity to Nigerians for two months. The minister’s statement came after power distribution companies said that the two-month free electricity which they announced on Wednesday would be paid for by the National Assembly…
NERC moves to remove tariff-related liabilities from DisCos
By Oke Peter The Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Thursday moved to remove historical related liabilities from the financial records of DisCos. NERC said that the order No. NERC/196/2020 that it issued yesterday seeks to resolve the continued accumulation of future tariff-related shortfalls during the transition to cost-reflective tariffs and to prevent the accrual…
Nigeria’s power grid records 206 collapses in 9 years …As foreign-funded investment hits N715bn
Nigerians woke up on Wednesday, May 8, to a nationwide outage that cut off power from many homes and factories, leading to reduced load allocations to the distribution companies (DisCos). About 5:29 am the following day (Thursday, May 9, 2019), the grid collapsed again, compounding the nation’s energy challenge. Checks revealed that the country’s power…
Discos’ power supply slumps to 2,962MW
Oke Peter with Agency Report A report obtained Thursday from the System Operations (SO), a department of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has shown that the level of electricity distribution by the 11 electricity distribution companies (Discos) in the country has significantly dropped to 2,962.82 megawatts (MW) or 46.73 per cent. The report, which…
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