The Nigerian Electricity Liability Management Company (NELMCO) has announced that it saved about N92 billion from clearing PHCN liabilities existing before the 2013 power privatization. The Managing Director of NELMCO, Mr Nathaniel Adebayo Fagbemi, announced this on Thursday. “We are here today to hear from BPSR the outcome of that...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has completed the reconductoring of its new 130KM  132kV double circuit Sokoto - Birnin Kebbi  Transmission Line, which was also energized at about 4.35pm on 13th April, 2021. The new  high capacity 132kV Transmission line which affects/ transverses 405 towers along the Birnin Kebbi...
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 Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said it has rescheduled ongoing upgrade of the dual construction of the 132 kilovolts (KV) power transmission line in Sagamu town of Ogun State of the continuous rainfall. The General Manager, Public Affairs at TCN, Ndidi Mbah, disclosed this in Lagos. TCN had earlier...
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...
Electricity Distribution Companies (DISCOS) today as part of the palliative measures to cushion the effects of the ravaging Coronavirus, agreed to supply free electricity to all Nigerians for two months. The DisCos under the umbrella of the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED) said, the action was necessary because of...
The Minister of Power, Engr. Sale Mamman, has said with the one year meter import waiver approved by President Muhammadu Buhari, the local manufacturers should have built capacity, for meters to be available to end the estimated billing regime. In a tweet, the minister said: “I am Pleased to tell...
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,...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has on Tuesday confirmed a tariff hike earlier reported saying it ‘adjusted’ it by N2 to N4. The tariff hike with effect from January 1, 2021, is coming two months after the last increment in November 2020. The commission in a statement by its management...
The call for the suspension of the proposed service reflective tariff was initiated by the National Assembly on Monday due to their concerns on its timing and what they saw as lapses in the internal workability of the plan within the sector. The Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED), made...