The management of Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC), on Tuesday said it needed a minimum of 1,400 mega watts of electricity to be able to provide 24-hour power supply to customers in its franchise areas.

Electricity Generation Companies (GenCos) comprising gas-fired and hydro stations said that they could not generate 3,060.5 megawatts of electricity on Monday due to unavailability of gas.

…Hinders generation of 66,645mw in three weeks …Indicates an increase of 45.4% By Udeme Akpan Despite Nigeria’s huge proven gas reserves of 202 trillion standard cubic feet, lack of gas has constrained the generation of 66,645 megawatts, MW, and by extension supply, in the first three weeks of February 2020. This showed an increase of […]

…Says nothing on ground to show project exists …Ask FG to return NBET to Ministry of Power By Chris Ochayi The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Power, Hon Magaji Da’u Aliyu, has said the over 40 years old Mambilla Hydro-Power project only existed on papers because there was nothing on ground to show that […]

Electricity consumers on Monday opposed the planned tariff increment by Ikeja Electric (IE), demanding that 90 per cent of customers should be metered before any upward review of tariff.

…Says NBET should go By Emma Ujah, AbujaBureau Chief & Chris Ochayi As the debate over the privatization of the nation’s electricity sector rages, the Chairman of Mainstream Energy Solutions Limited, Col. Sani Bello (retd) says, in this interview, that the nation would have been thrown into total darkness by now if the government had […]

ABUJA — THE Federal Government said yesterday that Distribution Companies, DISCOs, have failed in supplying adequate electricity to Nigerian consumers.

Mr Seun Ashamu, Oyo State Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources says the state has begun efforts toward achieving independent power supply. Ashamu, who made the disclosure on Wednesday while speaking with newsmen in Ibadan, maintained that the options of building an independent power station were already being explored by the state. He also said […]

Mr. Seun Ashamu, Oyo State Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, says the state has begun efforts toward achieving independent power supply. Ashamu, who made the disclosure on Wednesday while speaking with newsmen in Ibadan, maintained that the options of building an independent power station were already being explored by the state. He also said […]

Kano State Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) on viable transmission projects to improve power supply in the state. Abba Anwar, the Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje, made the disclosure in a statement on Sunday in Kano. Anwar disclosed that MoU was signed at […]