With just 30 days to the end of the second and final tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari on May 29, the Siemens Presidential Power Initiative (PPI) to raise the national electricity grid to 7,000 megawatts (MW) by 2021 in the…
Millions of Nigerians are yet to exit the estimated electricity billing arrangement because of the high cost of meters, which are available at the offices of the 11 Distribution Companies (DisCos) under the Meter Asset Providers (MAPs), a Daily Trust investigation has…
In about three years, the federal government has funded the delivery of 52 megawatts (MW) of solar electricity across rural areas to the tune of N241.8 billion with grants provided by the World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfDB).…
By November 7, it will be three years since the contractor handling the 40megawatts Dadin-Kowa hydropower plant project in Yamaltu/Deba Local Government Area of Gombe State announced it was ready for commissioning. Three years after, Daily Trust Saturday visited the…
Within 16 months, the 11 Distribution Companies (DisCos) in Nigeria lost the capacity to pay N484.993 billion of the N1.084 trillion invoices they received for the electricity they received from the power Generation Companies (GenCos) between January 2021 and April…
As Nigerians express high hopes of having a national grid that can deliver 10,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity by 2023, the incessant vandalism of power transmission infrastructure could hamper this target. In this piece, Daily Trust on Sunday chronicles cases…
For years, the 3,050 megawatts (MW) Mambilla hydropower project was only on paper until December 2020 when physical surveys began. But all that has ended as the latest update indicates that surveyors, who have not been paid, have left the…
Cases of shortage of gas and drop in water level have ripped off over 4,100 megawatts (MW) of electricity from the national grid within the first four days of March. Data from the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) which operates…
The federal government accelerates energy access, at least N7 billion has been released for the deployment of 100,000 units of Solar Home System (SH) under the Solar Power Naija (SPN) scheme. The SPN programme was created as part of the…
New electricity consumers in Nigeria are being ripped off by power distribution companies (DisCos) through estimated billing despite a policy stating that all new connections must be accompanied by meter, an investigation by Daily Trust revealed. The Connection and Disconnection Procedures…
