Electricity billing: NERC orders DisCos’ transition to cashless billing, collection

By Oke Peter AS part of its efforts to ensure optimal utilization of resources for the provision of electricity services, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Tuesday, ordered the electricity distribution companies (DisCos) to transit into cashless collection of electricity bills. This is effective for industrial and commercial by 31st January 2020 and R3…

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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…

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We’ve completed 100 power projects in four years —NDPHC boss

By Oke Peter The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited (NDPHC), Mr Chiedu Ugbo, has said the firm has completed 100 transmission and distribution projects across the country in the last four years. Chiedu disclosed this at the inauguration of a 2x60MVA, 132/33kV substation and associated 132kV transmission lines…

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