ELECTRICITY consumers, especially bulk users now have an option as the federal government has approved a new policy to enable them buy power directly from the electricity generating companies, GENCOs.

The Federal Government on Monday announced that it had recovered 64.6 million dollars electricity debt from its international customers.

The Federal Government announced, Monday, that it has recovered over $64.63 million electricity debts owed it by international customers in Benin Republic and Niger Republic.

 The Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED) has called on Nigerians to pay their electricity bills promptly.

 The Federal Government said on Friday that its plan to generate 20, 000 megawatts of electricity over the next four years was on course.

Mainstream Energy Solutions Limited, MESL, Concessionaire of Kainji and Jebba Hydro Electric plants, is to increase power generation by the plants to 1082 megawatts, MW.

The  Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) said  it would  begin the clean-up of poorly wired communities, beginning with Gishiri village in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Oct.  9.

As the October 2, deadline given by Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, to Eko Electricity Distribution Company, EKEDC, to address the complaints of persistent fraudulent and outrageous monthly estimated electricity bills raised by residents of 312 Road, Festac Town, Lagos, elapsed, the residents have cried out that EKEDC has refused to provide them with pre-paid meters.

Some electricity consumers in Alagbado area, Lagos have appealed to the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC) to end the challenges of estimated billing system in the area.

THE organised labour yesterday threatened to paralyze the nation’s economy if the Federal Government should go ahead with the planned hike on the electricity tariff.

Two thousand mega watts of electricity generated into the national is not distributed to consumers, according to Mr. Louis Edozien, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing.

RESIDENTS of Aba and Enugu in Abia and Enugu States respectively have given the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, two weeks to restore power supply to their areas or face the consequences.

Nigeria’s power supply may leap over 3,000 megawatts (MW) to over 4,000 MW as Siemens Nigeria has concluded plans to add 3 Gigawatts, GW, of electricity to the national grid by 2020

YENAGOA—AGGRIEVED residents of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital, on the platform of Association of Bulk-Bill Electricity Consumers, ABEC, yesterday, took to the streets, protesting what they described as “100 percent arbitrary increase in electricity tariff by the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, PHEDC, without any justification.”

The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, said yesterday that it wheeled out 72,261.7 megawatts of electricity in the first four weeks of August.