Geometric Power, Nigeria’s foremost integrated electricity group, has decried the acute shortage of natural gas supply to its 188-megawatt plant in the Osisioma Industrial Estate in Aba, Abia State, saying it is affecting the state’s economic growth. “Due to the grave shortage of gas”, said the managing director of Aba Power, Ugo Opiegbe, Nigeria’s 12th electricity distribution company which is …

The Federal Government has approved a 50% electricity subsidy for public hospitals across the country. Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Tunji Alausa, announced this on Thursday at the National Neo-Psychiatric Hospital in Barnawa, Kaduna State. The minister commissioned the Electronic Health Records and Alternative Power Supply at the Lawal Jafaru Isah Emergency Complex and the solarisation project …

The Federal Government and the states have raised N100 billion for the procurement of prepaid electricity meters. Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, said this was under the Presidential Meter Initiative (PMI) programme. Adelabu disclosed this while addressing broadcasters in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. According to him, President Bola Tinubu’s administration has been making efforts to close the meter gap …

The Ukpor Community, the headquarters of Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State, on Friday, embarked on a protest over more than six years of power outages in the town. The protesters, who trooped out to the office of the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) in the area in their numbers, chanted solidarity songs and displayed placards with varying …

None of the four international bilateral customers being supplied by the power generation companies in the Nigerian electricity supply industry made payment against the cumulative invoice of $14.19 million issued by the market operator for services rendered in the first quarter of 2024. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) revealed this in a report. The foreign companies are Para-SBEE in …

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has issued permits to Golden Penny Power Limited, MTN Communications Nigeria Limited, Havenhill Synergy, and others for mini-grid electricity generation. The NERC said it issued nine new off-grid generation licences in the first quarter of 2024 with a gross capacity of 109.69 megawatts and three new trading licences. According to a report by the …

The Federal Government said it would start subsidising electricity in universities and health institutions under Band A feeders. The Minister of Power, Chief Adebayo Adelabu disclosed this on Saturday when he appeared on a programme aired by different radio stations in Ibadan, Oyo State. Adelabu said the government would not subsidise private businesses operating in these universities and hospitals. After …

In a bid to end estimated billing in Ondo state, the state government has entered into a partnership with the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) Plc to meter over one million houses across the state. The state government-led metering intervention scheme was code-named O’datiwa Meters Initiative. This was the resolution reached at the end of a high-powered meeting held on …

The Edo State Government, in partnership with Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC), is set to meter about 500,000 houses in the state. The Commissioner for Mining, Energy, Oil and Gas, Enaholo Ojiefo, who stated this on Saturday, said the exercise would begin on 13 August in order to eliminate the problem of estimated billing in the state. Shortly after signing …

Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has invested $500 million to strengthen transmission infrastructure along Lagos-Ogun Industrial corridor, covering Agbara, Mowe and Sagamu industrial clusters. Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, who made this known when the Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun visited him at the weekend in Abuja. According to him, all these will involve building additional power transmission substations and …