The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) says that the nation’s power generation improved slightly to 3,528.90 megawatts on Feb. 1 from 2,662 megawatts on Jan. 22. This figure was disclosed on the website of the Nigerian Electricity System Operator (SO), a sub-agency of the TCN, in its daily forecast on power generation in Lagos on […]
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Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola says insufficient supply of gas and pipeline sabotage by Niger Delta militants have made it difficult to fuel power plants, bringing about poor supply of electricity to Nigerians. The minister made this disclosure on Wednesday while speaking to state house reporters after the federal executive council meeting. He said: “We […]
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The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said that that the nation’s power generation capacity dropped slightly from 3,959 megawatts from Jan. 4, to 3,751.90 megawatts on Jan. 12, due to dearth of gas. The Nigerian Electricity System Operator (SO) website, a sub agency of TCN, disclosed the figure on its daily forecast website on power […]
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Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI, operational report for Jan. 3, said the power sector hit a peak generation of 4,959 megawatts as against 3,321 megawatts recorded on Dec. 2.On Wednesday, Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) wheeled out about 3,959 megawatts of electricity to the 11 distribution companies as the country’s power supply gradually stabilised. The […]
Continue ReadingThe Federal Government says it will embark on building of nuclear plants and careful application of nuclear energy to meet the needs of the country. Ogbonnaya Onu, the Minister of Science and Technology, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, on Wednesday in Abuja. Mr. Onu said that nuclear energy […]
Continue ReadingThe Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has said that the country’s power generation has increased from 3,810 megawatts recorded on September 8, 2016 to 4,285.90 megawatts on Friday.The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the power generation record was reported in the website of “Nigerian Electricity System Operator’’ on Friday. The TCN said that 4,285.90 […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s power situation worsened on Thursday, as power generation collapsed completely to zero megawatt at about 1:00pm and this persisted for about three hours.Data from the country’s System Operator showed that around 1pm on Thursday, no power generation company in Nigeria produced a single megawatt of electricity. Industry operators revealed that as a result of […]
Continue ReadingThe Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has appealed to Nigerians to embrace the increase in electricity tariff, described the increase as “a painful pill,” that consumers need to “swallow”. Fashola related this, on the sidelines of the second monthly sectoral meeting with stakeholders in the power sector in Lagos, where he also […]
Continue ReadingIt is no longer news that the Federal Executive Council, the highest executive decision making organ of the Federal Government of Nigeria has now been inaugurated. That happened on Wednesday the 11th November, 2015 which is 28 days ago. It is also no longer news that 3 (Three) Ministries or areas of critical public service […]
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The Federal Government of Nigeria, yesterday announced the signing of the World Bank Partial Risk Guarantees (PRGs) in support of the 450 megawatts Azura-Edo Independent Power Plant (IPP). The deal which was concluded on Friday, August 21, 2015, had as parties; the Federal Government represented by the Ministry of Finance and Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading […]
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