There is widespread protest at the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) headquarters in Abuja over the removal of Mr Usman Gur Mohammed as the Managing Director on Tuesday. The members of the unions comprising the Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies (SSAEAC) and the Nigerian Union of Electricity...
The Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) have described as unfair a letter written to them by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), to distance itself from the July 1 commencement of a new service based electricity tariff regime. According to their umbrella body, the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED), DisCos...
The power Distribution Companies (DisCos) say they are losing N13.9 billion monthly to the capped estimated billing order by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), just as they seek realistic indices before the implementation of the Service Reflective Tariff (SRT). The Managing Director of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC),...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), and the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) will face a probe panel at the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Thursday after they traded words on faulty networks last weekend. On Saturday during a downpour, TCN accused AEDC of refusing to take energy from...
Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has announced the deployment of a smart high-tension overhead fault detector for 11 kilovolts (KV) and 33KV high tension power lines, becoming the first of such Nigeria. The General Manager, Corporate Communications, Oyebode Fadipe in a statement he issued on Wednesday, said AEDC partnered Aquivis...
The new Permanent Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Power, Chinyeaka Christian Ohaa, assumed office on Wednesday, taking over from Mrs. Didi Walson-Jack, a statement said. Walson Jack who redeployed last week to the Ministry of Water Resources, the statement by the Deputy Director, Press at the power minister, Mrs....
The Rural Electrification Agency (REA) said it has commissioned two solar hybrid mini grids in Akipelai and Oloibiri communities of Bayelsa State with a total capacity of 134.64kW. The Communications Specialist for NEP at the REA, Ahmed Abubakar, in a statement said the projects were delivered under the Nigeria Electrification Project...
Management of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company has said that it will effect a new electricity tariff structure from July 1st as part of measures designed to improve service level performance within its franchise area. The review, which it says had become overdue even before the outbreak of COVID 19 became...
The power Distribution Companies (DisCos) have never gotten any free money from the Federal Government. Out of the N1.8 trillion so far injected into the power sector, DisCos have only accessed N58 billion loan from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) N214bn loan facility, which is being repaid. This was...
Colonel Sani Bello (Rtd) is the Chairman, board of directors of Mainstream Energy Solutions Limited (MESL), concessionaire for the Kainji and Jebba hydropower plants in Niger State. In this interview, Col. Bello  spoke about the implications  of the calls to reverse the gains of the power sector privatisation and what...