Seven electricity generating companies (GenCos) were unable to generate electricity yesterday as their plants were shut down due to unavailability of gas and other infrastructural issues.

Electricity consumers in Umuahia and its environs have expressed worry over the erratic power supply and ‘’crazy bills’’ from the Enugu Electricity distribution Company (EEDC).

A total of 18 communities in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, are to start enjoying improved electricity supply following the installation of two additional high capacity electricity transformers by the Federal Government.

For years now, residents of Awoyaya in Ibeju Lekki, Lagos, have struggled with the effects of epileptic power supply caused by a bad transformer, in spite of several entreaties to Eko Electricity Distribution Company, EKEDC.

Lumos Nigeria said its innovative mobile solar energy device is best suited to provide electricity to meet the basic energy needs of Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) in Nigeria, where epileptic power supply has been the bane of small business development. 

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has applauded the effort of the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) in executing its asset and customer enumeration exercise.

Lack of proper structure has been identified as the biggest challenge of the power sector in Nigeria.

The Federal Government says the implementation of the Power Sector Recovery Programme (PSRP) will ensure a minimum baseline daily power supply of 4,500Mega Watts (MW) from 2018.

By Chris Ochayi ABUJA— The Federal Government, yesterday, unveiled a 20-year transmission master plan, targeting a wheeling capacity of 10,000 megawatts of electricity by 2020. Transmission Company of Nigerian, TCN, while presenting the plan in Abuja, said the plan would also push the wheeling capacity up to 28,000MW by year 2035. Interim Managing Director of […]

THE Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has disclosed that there would be blackout across some parts of Enugu State, as a result of damaged transmission line between Oji River and Nsukka in region.

Electricity consumers in Olorunlogbon Community in Ikotun area of Lagos State, on Tuesday decried the four months of power outage in the area due to a faulty transformer.

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has said that about 159 power equipment containers of various power equipment abandoned by contractors are still stranded at various seaports across the country.

This is the concluding part of this report which was first published yesterday. In that edition, it was understood that there is no way the country can have power supply without adjusting tariffs because currently the DISCOs are running at a loss

AS was often the case in the past, officials of the Eko Electricity Distribution Company, EKEDC, recently stormed the popular Festac Town in Lagos for another round of mass disconnection due to what they claimed was the continued refusal by the residents to pay their electricity bills. But it was a mission that almost turned into a tragic misadventure.

ABUJA—The country’s electricity supply situation is set to improve as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, said it had concluded repair works on the Escravos-Lagos Pipeline, ELP, and gas supply had been restored to the affected power plants.