Power Sector News in Nigeria

Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has announced the completion of the 330kV Akure Transmission Substation in Ondo State. The company also said it is accelerating efforts to complete the 330kV transmission line that would supply power…

Nigeria Electrification Project (NEP) is building new solar hybrid mini-grids in Nasarawa state under the Nigerian Electrification Agency (REA), with funding from the World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfDB). Directly undertaken…

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, and the Bayelsa State Government signed have signed a Power Purchase Agreement, PPA, for the delivery of electricity from the 10 megawatts gas fired independent power plant…

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says it will deploy the industrial mechanisms granted in labour laws for the defense of workers' rights to resist increase in electricity tariff. The NLC President Mr Ayuba Wabba said this in a…

Experts in the power sector have called on the newly-appointed Minister of Power, Mr. Abubakar Aliyu, to do everything possible to address the crisis in the power sector.The experts spoke shortly after President Muhammadu Buhari removed…

Over 500 urban areas around the world are expected to adopt Digital Twin technology by 2025, a research has revealed. The increased demand for Digital Twin Technology is said to be driven by the COVID-19 outbreak which has led to the…

The Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED) said that electricity consumers in the country paid N362bn out of the N520bn billed them from January to September last year. ANED, the umbrella body for the 10 private Discos…

...Says it subsidizes 55% of low users The Federal Government on Thursday ordered the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission to suspend the implementation of the January 1, 2021 nationwide electricity tariff hike. The…

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has said that it did not grant any approval to electricity distribution companies in the country to increase electricity tariff by 50 per cent. NERC in a statement by its…

Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC has said that electricity customers who paid for meters under the Meter Asset Provider scheme will be refunded. NERC through its Head of Public Affairs made this known on Wednesday in a…

Energy transition is indeed being witnessed in different sectors of the global economy. In South Africa, Gold producer Pan African Resources Plc (LON:PAF) has selected Juwi South Africa as the engineering, procurement and construction…

Youths in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers state – hosts to the Afam Power Station, on Tuesday threatened to stop the takeover of the power plant by Transcorp Plc. Orient Energy Review learnt that the youths under the aegis of…

The Federal Government, Friday added a new hydropower plant to the nation’s power grid.  The addition of Dadin Kowa Hydropower Plant has brought the number of hydropower plants producing electricity in Nigeria to four. The Dadin Kowa…

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has ordered power distribution companies (DisCos) to start disconnecting electricity consumers who reject meters. The NERC made this known on Wednesday as it observed that some power…

The Federal Government reiterated its resolve to mete stiff measures to any of the power distribution companies (DisCos) or their agents selling prepaid meters to their customers against the directive that they should be distributed free. …

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) may again review the capital expenditure of the 11 respective electricity distribution companies (Discos) in the country’s power sector. The exercise is expected to also impact on the…

The Presidency said it would deliver five million solar systems to 25 million Nigerians previously not connected to the national grid through Solar Home Systems, under the Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP). Laolu Akande, Senior Special…

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has said that the major challenge now facing the power sector is that of transmission, insisting that gas supply to power generating…

The President Muhammadu Buhari has said the tariff shortfalls in the power sector being borne by the Federal Government are no longer sustainable. Buhari said this on Thursday at the inauguration of Eko Electricity Distribution…

The Federal Government has handed over the Afam Power Plant to Transcorp Power Consortium after it emerged the preferred bidder of the power asset, with a bid offer of N105 billion. The Director-General, Bureau of Public Enterprises,…