Nigeria is loaded with natural resources that could help Europe in its energy transition. Europe has the necessary elements to build out the as-yet underdeveloped Nigerian energy sector. There are many challenges on the road to a successful partnership, the broadest of which is the fragile political stability of Nigeria. Nigeria could be emerging as …read more →
Power
Electricity: Transformers from €63m Siemens deal to arrive — FG
The first set of mega transformers from the €63 million Siemens deal has d in Nigeria, the Federal Government revealed. The Siemens deal which is expected to significantly improve the country’s electricity distribution capacity, was approved by the Federal Executive Council in December, 2021. A statement by the Special Adviser, Media, to the Minister of …read more →
PIDG’s Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund Anchors $420mn Bond Issuance
Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) company, the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) was an anchor investor in a recent successful bond issue by African telecommunications and digital company Axian Telecom. It raised US$420 million (€369.31 million). EAIF has invested US$20 million (€17.59 million) in the bond, scaled back from an original commitment of up to …read more →
British Power Company in trillion-Dollar Compo Blunder
British energy supplier Northern Powergrid has apologised to 74 customers after they were accidentally sent compensation cheques of more than £2.3 trillion ($4.4 trillion). Compensation is being paid to tens of thousands of customers who were left without power when severe “once in a generation” winds swept across Britain from Storm Arwen in November last …read more →
Northern Youths Urge Protection for Public Infrastructure
Northern youths, under the aegis of Arewa Youth Assembly, have called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari(retd.) to engage the service of competent hands to protect the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano gas pipeline from vandals. This, the youth said, became imperative to promote a steady and guaranteed gas supply from the South to the North at the …read more →
Power: NERC Laments Infrastructure Deficits, Wide Metering Gap
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, Friday, lamented that the issues of infrastructure deficits and challenges of metering gap have compounded its woe of addressing the problems in the power sector. The Chairman of NERC, Mr. Sanusi Garba, who made the remarks during the signing of Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with the Federal Competition and …read more →
Prepaid Meters: Energy Experts Call for Review of Prices, Installation Process
Stakeholders in the electricity sector have called on the federal government to review the pricing of prepaid meters as the second phase of the National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP) is set to commence. They said this at the just-concluded power sector dialogue in Abuja themed ‘Assessing the Progress of the NMMP’. The NMMP is an …read more →
Egbin Power Plant Resumes Operations as TCN Restores 180mw to National Grid
The Management of Egbin Power Plc says its power plant at Egbin, Ikorodu, Lagos State, has resumed operations following the recent fire incident at the plant. The company made this known in a statement posted on its website on Saturday. It said: “Unit (STO5) was put back in service and synchronized to the national grid …read more →
NDPHC Awards Owerri Sub-Station to AK-AY Elektrik
The Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) Limited has awarded the contract for immediate installation and energizing of the Owerri NIPP 2 x 150MVA and 2 x 60MVA 330/132/33kV Owerri Transmission Sub-station to Messrs. Ak-AY Elektrik. According to a statement from the company’s Media Adviser, ‘Sanya Adejokun, the transformers had been installed more than 10 years ago …read more →
FG Did Not Takeover Abuja Electricity Disco
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) have said that the action to appoint an interim team to manage Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) was not done on the directive from the Federal Government, but on the basis of legal processes arising from the failure of the core investor in …read more →