12 minutes per year: Germany has shortest time of power black-outs ever
Germany ranks among the countries with the highest electric supply security in the world.
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NDPHC: Bridging the electricity gap
One of such interventions was in 2005 when the Federal Government set up the Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited (NDPHC) to fast-track power sector infrastructure development.
World Bank approves $750m for Nigeria’s power sector
The bank expressed worry that about 47 per cent of Nigerians had no access to grid electricity and those who had access faced regular power cuts.
Ikeja Electric meters over 120,000 households •Set to roll out over 400,000 in next two years
Ikeja Electric Plc (IE), has metered over one hundred and twenty thousand households between 2018 and June 2020. This is in line with its commitment to bridge its metering gap.
Paying more for darkness
“It is not true that Nigerians do not want to pay more for power but that they have been unhappy with the poor service over the years.
Renewable energy is electrifying COVID-19 Isolation Centers in Nigeria
The electricity sector has not been left out of this ongoing negative impact resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, as it continues to struggle with increased epileptic power supply and increased losses stemming from unpaid electricity debts due to lack of cost-reflective tariffs and decreased consumer spending.
Nigerian households spent N2trn on fuel, electricity in 2019 —NBS
Damilola Shittu – Abuja The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said that households in Nigeria spent a total of N2.02trn on fuel and electricity in 2019, The NBS said in a new report on consumption expenditure pattern that household expenditure on fuel/light accounted for 11.57 percent of the total non-food consumption expenditure in 2019….
Damilola Ogunbiyi and Riccardo Puliti: Energy access takes center stage in COVID-19 fight, powering Africa’s recovery
To avoid the worst impacts and help contain the virus worldwide, we must act now to deploy solutions that can provide life-saving energy access to those who need it most.
Legal dispute delaying Mambilla hydro plant is nearly over —Power minister
Nigeria is set to build the second-largest hydropower plant in Africa after the government settled a legal dispute that was delaying the project, said power minister Sale Mamman. “We have now overcome the major problem stopping this project and it [the legal dispute] is nearly over,” Mamman said in an interview in Abuja, the capital…
NUEE gives Power Ministry 14 days to pay disengaged workers
The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has issued 14 days ultimatum to the Federal Ministry of Power to pay more than 2,000 workers that were disengaged from the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria or risk industrial action from electricity workers.The union gave the ultimatum on Wednesday during a media briefing in Lagos. It…