The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC has issued notices of intention to commence enforcement action against seven electricity Distribution Companies, DisCos over their failure to comply with the Order 197/2020 on capping of unmetered Residential 2, R2 and Commercial 1, C1 electricity customers.
In a tweet statement issued on Tuesday,...
AEDC’s metering performance under the meter asset provider scheme otherwise known as MAP reached a major milestone May 5th when the company metered the 100,000th customer.
The MAP programme, a successor to the CAPMI and several other intervention schemes started in May 2019 as a power sector strategic initiative aimed...
The new Managing Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Engr. Sule Abdulaziz, and his four management team, have received their appointment letters.
A statement by the General Manager, Public Affairs at TCN, Ndidi Mbah confirmed this on Monday. The statement said the letters were received on June 8,...
…pledges support to new management
The House of Representatives Committee on Power, has lauded the operational performance of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) just as it commits to giving it more support improved operations.
Chairman of the House Committee, Honourable Magaji Da'u Aliyu gave the commendation when he led his...
The 11 electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) are expected to lose N366 billion revenue as the three months of suspending a new tariff hike ends in June 2020.
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) was to approve the tariff hike on April 1, 2020 but suspended it till June 30 due...
The Federal Government has inaugurated an Inter-Ministerial Committee on ground rent and tenement rates for the inherited assets of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN).
According to a statement by the Deputy Director, Press at the ministry, Etore E. Thomas on Thursday, the Minister of Power, Engr. Sale...
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...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) on Tuesday announced national power grid collapse with the promise of speedy restoration.
The spokesperson of the company said the incident occurred at 11:13am, and that restoration of the grid was over 90 percent already.
TCN did not immediately state the reasons for the system...
The removal of the Managing Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Mr Usman Gur Mohammed, may reverse key power sector reforms and jeopardize the $1.661 billion multilateral agencies' funded projects TCN is executing to expand bulk power transmission to 20,000 megawatts (MW) in few years.
A statement issued...
President Muhammadu Buhari said he has approved the release of funding to begin the first part of the Phase 1 of the Siemens Presidential Power Initiative (PPI) which will kick-off the pre-engineering and concession financing work streams.
To ensure fairness and transparency of the intervention, the President also directed that...
