ELECTRICITY NIGERIA

By Eyo Nsima All On, a Shell-funded impact investment company is pleased to announce a GBP1million investment in Mobile Power Limited, to increase the growth of its Pay-per-use battery sharing platform in Nigeria. Mobile Power’s energy distribution platform “MOPO”, is successfully serving challenging markets, creating local employment, and providing financial and social returns. The platform […]

By Sunday Oduntan There continues to be all manner of recent events undermining an already fragile and moribund Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI). In particular, a long history of policy and regulatory inconsistency, significant contributory factors to the poor performance of sectoral operators, is being worsened by a resort to violations of the rule of

By Eyo Nsima For the first time in Nigeria, nomination has been opened for the Nigeria Power Sector 2022 Awards, put in place to honour individuals and organisations that have made outstanding contributions toward the development of the nation’s power sector. The organisers, Nigeria Power Sector Awards Limited, said the Awards have become expedient as

By Eyo Nsima The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has started the process of restoring electricity to consumers nationwide in Nigeria. But checks by The Daily, www.thedaily-ng.com, has it that it might take up till the weekend to achieve a sustainable feat as most parts of the nation still live in darkness. The entire nation

By Eyo Nsima The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has lamented the shutdown of electricity in Nigeria by labour, promising to restore supply soon. In a statement obtained by The Daily, www.thedaily-ng.com, the company solely responsible for transition of electricity, stated: “Following the Industrial Dispute declared by the two in-house Unions at the Transmission Company

By Godswill Odiong Gennex Technologies, an indigenous energy company in Nigeria has highlighted influx of unqualified solar installers, substandard components and lack of innovative financial packages as major setbacks in providing renewable and alternative energy supply in Nigeria. The Managing Director, Gennex Technologies, Mr Patrick Ilo, who disclosed this at a colloquium tagged: “Delivering Sustainable

Schneider Electric, in an effort to scale up electricity access and pave the way for a sustainable power sector in Nigeria, has partnered with Ikeja Electric (IE) to improve electricity distribution in its network The collaboration would address common problems faced by electricity distribution companies in the country, namely the lack of traceability when faults

By Eyo Nsima The Federal Government and Siemens Energy have made progress toward delivering additional 2,000 megawatts, MW, under the Phase 1 of the Presidential Power Initiative, PPI. The Minister of Power, Engr. Abubakar Aliyu had engaged Siemens’ Executive Management and Chief Executive Officer, FGN Power Company, Christian Bruche, to expedite actions on the manufacture

By Eyo Nsima Nigeria’s power generation has risen to 4,064 megawatts, MW in July, 2022, from less than 3,000MW recorded in June 2022, according to the Nigeria Electricity System Operator. Investigation by The Daily, www.thedaily-ng.com, showed that this is responsible for the relative improvement in the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity to consumers in

The Federal Government is making effort to deliver two units of 330 kV power transmission substations in Katsina and Kano states along with the transmission lines to raise power supply in the states. The Managing Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Engr. Dr. Sule Abdulaziz, disclosed this while inspecting the 330/132/33kV Katsina Substation