POWER

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has commissioned the 2x60MVA, 132/33KV Awka substation in Anambra State, built by the Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited (NDPHC), to make an additional 100 megawatts (MW) stranded capacity available to the South-eastern state. Osinbajo according to statement by the company, reiterated the federal government’s commitment to continue to create an enabling environment for businesses to grow, ...

………plans N91 billion investments for network expansion, metering in the next five years……. Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC), has posted a revenue loss of N24 billion and has estabished 15,032 cases of vandalism on its assets between January and July 2021. The Chief Operating Officer, Engineer John Ayodeji, who declared this at the IBEDC 2021 half year press conference in ...

Power generation increased to 3,910 megawatts on Tuesday morning following the restoration by the Transmission Company of Nigeria of the national grid which had collapsed the preceding day. The TCN explained that the grid collapse, the second time within a period of one month, followed a sudden drop in system frequency. Figures obtained from the Federal Ministry of Power in ...

The national power grid has collapsed for the second time in less than a month, worsening the blackout being experienced by households and businesses in parts of Nigeria. The collapse, which occurred around 1:00pm on Monday, was confirmed by two of the electricity distribution companies in the country. The grid had on July 28, 2021 suffered a total collapse, which ...

The management of Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) has appealed to customers in parts of Ogun and Lagos State over the irregular power supply being experienced. Mr Godwin Idemudia, General Manager, Corporate Communication Unit, EKEDC made the appeal on Thursday in Lagos. Idemudia said that the outage was due to a fault on the company’s transformer at their transmission station. ...

A significant step towards redeeming the pledge by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to intervene in the perennial electric power supply challenge in Maiduguri, Borno State, was taken Tuesday with the execution of the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) and Equipment Procurement contracts for a 50Megawatts (MW) Emergency Power Project in Maiduguri. The project which is an integral part ...

General Manager Sub-Saharan Africa for Schneider Electric Process Automation, Mr. Ajibola Akindele, stated this at the 2021 Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Nigeria Annual International Conference and Exhibition (NAICE), with the theme: “The Future of Energy – A Trilogy of Determinants: Climate Change, Public Health, and the Global Oil Market”, which held in Lagos. Speaking on a panel on “Energy ...

The Minister of State for Power, Mr Goddy Jedy-Agba, has assured Nigerians of the country’s readiness to participate in the forthcoming COP26 United Nations (UN) conference on climate change. Jedy-Agba disclosed this at the Nigeria Energy Forum (NEF) 2021 virtual conference with the theme: “Powering a Sustainable Industrial Revolution.” The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, ...

The Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission, a body comprising host communities of hydropower plants, on Wednesday met the Bureau of Public Enterprises to demand 10 per cent royalty payment from the concession of the plants. Managing Director, HYPPADEC, Abubakar Yelwa, said the visit of his team to the BPE was to find ways to get the 10 per cent ...

Ahead of its plan to accommodate nuclear power in the Nigeria’s national grid, the Nigerian Atomic Energy Commission (NAEC) and the Russian Federation have commenced deliberations with the Federal Ministry of Power. The duo also begun discussions with the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning on how to accommodate the feasibility study of the plan in the 2022 ...