ELECTRICITY NIGERIA

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

…restores supply to Cross River State The Transmission Company of Nigeria energized the Odukpani – Ikot Ekpene 330kV Double Circuit Transmission lines at about 8.41 pm Sunday, 15th May, 2022, after completing the re-erection of the vandalized tower 104 and lines repair. Consequently, TCN has commenced the evacuation of over 400MW stranded power generation from

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has completed work on the 330kV Akure Transmission Substation in Ondo State, and is accelerating efforts to complete the 330kV transmission line that would supply power to the substation. The Executive Director, Transmission Service Provider, TCN, Engr. Victor Adewumi, stated this today, during the on-the-spot assessment of the facility

Reconstruction works on the vandalized transmission Tower Number 104 on Odukpani – Ikot Ekpene 330kV double-circuit transmission line in Akwa Ibom has been completed, while work is ongoing to fortify other towers minimally vandalized along the same line route, to enable the restringing and tensioning of the 330kV DC transmission line, before it is energized.

Nigeria’s search for increased electric power supply has received a major boost with the emergence of a new electric distribution company in Aba, Abia State, bringing the number of electricity distribution firms in the country to 12. The previous ones are located in Abuja, Jos, Kano, Ibadan, Kaduna, Port Harcourt, Benin, Yola, Enugu, Ikeja and

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) says its 150MVA, 330/132/33 kV power transformer in Ayede Substation caught fire in the early hours of Wednesday morning. TCN in a statement by General Manager, Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah disclosed that the fire has been contained and its engineers were working to isolate the burnt circuits, to enable