Tag: Electricity

KEDCO laments low revenue generation
Electricity

KEDCO laments low revenue generation

The Kebbi Central Area Office of Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company has voiced concern for collecting less than 27% of its monthly revenue target. The manager of the Kebbi Central Area Office, Ishaq Ishaq-Gwamna, made this announcement on Thursday while speaking with reporters in his Birnin Kebbi office. The journalists were there to get clarification on a variety […]

FG owes N100bn electricity bill debt - Distributors
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Power outage worsens in France over electricity workers’ strike  

The leading electric utility company, Électricité de France’s strike which started last Friday has led to low nuclear power output, worsening power outage in the country. This was disclosed by the company on Saturday, in its published data. Reuters reported that workers at the French utility EDF’s nuclear plants went on a rolling strike on […]

FG owes N100bn electricity bill debt - Distributors
Electricity

Electricity: SERAP sues Buhari over tariff hike

Oluwanifemi Ojo     The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit against the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), over “the failure to reverse the unlawful, unjust, and unreasonable increase in electricity tariff, and to probe the spending of public funds as ‘investments and bailouts’ to DisCos and GenCos since 2005.”   Attorney-General […]

GEF, UNDP fund rural electricity for agriculture with $5.91m
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GEF, UNDP fund rural electricity for agriculture with $5.91m

  The Africa Mini-grids Programme, an initiative of the Global Environment Facility, with the support of the United Nations Development Programme, the Rural Electrification Agency have subsidized electricity for rural agricultural activities in Nigeria, with a grant of $5.91million. According to the AMP Project Regional Manager, Mr. Nasiru Ibrahim, the fund is a four-year pilot […]

Electricity customers paid N210.17b in three months - NERC
Electricity

Electricity customers paid N210.17b in three months – NERC

Power consumers paid N210.17 billion to distribution companies in the fourth quarter of 2021, according to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission. This was stated in its Quarterly Report for the Fourth Quarter of 2021, which was released on Thursday, noting that N210.17 billion represented 9.34 per cent of the total electricity bill paid by consumers […]

S.Africa signs wind energy deal to ease power outages
Electricity

S.Africa signs wind energy deal to ease power outages

South Africa on Thursday inked the first three of a series of agreements with independent producers to supply wind energy amid worsening blackouts in the continent’s most industrialised economy. The coal-dependent country picked 25 wind and solar projects to generate a total of 2,583 megawatts, a boost of roughly 4.5 per cent on current capacity. […]