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…
In March this year, the Federal Government said it was set to commission the 10 Megawatts to wind farm sited at Lambar Rimi area of Katsina State. The Minister of Power, Engr Sale Mamman, who announced the development via a…
The multi-billion naira Independent Power Plant (IPP) project in Kano State, which was said to have reached 95 percent completion in July 2020 and scheduled to be commissioned in October of the same year, is yet to see the light…
The Daily Trust Foundation, with support from MacArthur Foundation, has conducted a workshop on Fact-Checking and Verification. The workshop, which held at the Daily Trust Foundation Training Hall, began on Monday, May 24, 2021, and ended on Wednesday, May 26,…
Nigerians have continued to pay for the power supply but have not seen enough of that in the past five years, with electricity tariff rising as economic indices worsen. Although the power sector was privatized on November 1, 2013, to…
The Daily Trust Foundation, with support from MacArthur Foundation, has organized a three-day workshop on multi-media reporting. The workshop held at the Daily Trust Foundation Training Hall from Monday, March 29, 2021 to Wednesday, March 31, 2021. The workshop was…
Residents of Dadin-Kowa, the host community of a hydropower plant, have expressed displeasure over the delay in inaugurating the project, over a year after its completion. The power plant, which was initiated in 1959 and located in Gombe State to…
There are indications that Transcorp Power Consortium, one of the leading power generating companies in Nigeria may lose its bid to acquire majority stake in the newest and biggest power generating plants recently built by the federal government.
