The Minister of Power, Engr Sale Mamman has given the assurance that the three Power projects located in Abia North of Abia State would be reactivated and completed in the first quarter of next year. The 2x30/40MVA substations 132 KVA transmission lines, which are located in Arochukwu, Ohafia and Ubur-Ihechiowa...
Electricity Distribution Companies under the auspices of the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED) have accused the Federal Government of failure to pay outstanding N100billion subsidy since 2013. The DisCos also disclosed that other privatization promises were not fulfilled since 2013, accusing the government of renationalizing them despite private funding. ANED's...
The Federal Government has proposed capital punishment for vandals of power installations in Nigeria. The government’s decision was following the deliberate and persistent destruction of the nation’s power assets built with the scarce resources of the country. Minister of Power, Chief Adebayo Adelabu disclosed this while parleying with the Heads of...
President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of four Nigerian professionals to serve as Executive Directors of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), for a renewable term of four years. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale who disclosed this in a statement on...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) announced it has successfully completed the repair of the faulty portion of one of the 132kV Katampe – Central Area underground Transmission cables supplying bulk electricity to TCN’s Gas Insulated Substation (GIS) in Central Area, Abuja. General Manager, Public Affairs, TCN, Ndidi Mbah in...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), has again approved over 50 per cent hike in electricity tariff payable by customers of the 11 Distribution Companies, DisCos. This increment is coming just two months after it finally implemented a much opposed hike in November 2020. Going by a revised Multi Year Tariff...
The Federal Government has disclosed plans to grant licences for the establishment of Smaller Distribution Companies (DisCos) to address the electricity needs of the underserved regions of the country. Minister of Power, Chief Adebayo Adelabu disclosed this in his Opening Remarks at the 7th Nigeria International Energy Summit (NIES) on...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has disclosed plans to rollout the mobile power outage reporting App across the eleven Distribution Companies (DisCos). This was disclosed by the NERC Chairman, Engr. Sanusi Garba on Wednesday while briefing the Power Correspondents in Abuja. He attributed the delay in the rollout of the...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) announced that its Kumbotso 330/132/33kV Transmission Substation, Kano has taken delivery of another 13 heavy duty trucks, loaded with transformer accessories, bringing to 20 the total number of trucks that have delivered the accessories for 300MVA and 100MVA power transformers that would soon...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) is set to test and commission the new 330kV Red phase current transformer at Gombe Transmission Substation. TCN's General Manager, Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah disclosed this in a statement on Monday, February 26, 2024. Mrs. Mbah said, the transformer would be commissioned by the maintenance...