The Federal Government, alongside European Union and Germany, yesterday in Abuja, released the Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) targeting to address bottlenecks in the renewable energy sector and enable the country to meet the targets of adding 9,000 megawatts of electricity to the national grid through the renewable sector
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Solar power is expected to reach 10 percent of global power generation by the year 2030, and much of that is likely to be located in desert areas, where sunlight is abundant. But the accumulation of dust on solar panels or mirrors is already a significant issue—it can reduce the
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The national electricity grid suffered a system collapse on Monday, leading to power outages across the country. The development comes as Nigerians are experiencing epileptic power supply and a hike in fuel prices. The grid is infamous for experiencing disruptions, having collapsed in February, May, July and August 2021. Electricity distribution companies (DisCos)
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The Executive Secretary of the Association of Power Generation Companies (APGC), Dr Joy Ogaji on Sunday said Generation Companies (GenCos) were being owed a sum of N1.644trillion for unutilised capacity. This was even as it blamed the current low power generation on poor grid management by the system operator. Ogaji who gave
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Schneider Electric as part of efforts to support Nigeria’s commitment towards the smooth transition to net zero carbon emission has introduced a new range of micro grid solutions in the Nigerian market. The micro-grid solutions were introduced to the Nigerian market at a one-day workshop themed “Transforming Africa’s Energy Future”, held
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The federal government has raised at least N125 billion through budgetary interventions and from multilateral financial institutions towards the ongoing electricity grid reforms in the last six years, records have shown. The structure of the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) is that there is the generation section (upstream), the transmission (midstream)
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The Minister of Finance, Budgets and National Planning, Mrs. Zanaib Ahmed, said that the Federal Government, FG, has quietly removed all subsidies in the power sector, with a plan to gradually end subsidies on petrol. Ahmed who spoke at a virtual meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with the theme:
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Before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, Ukraine had four nuclear power plants (NPPs) in operation run by the National Nuclear Energy Generating Company of Ukraine (also known as Energoatom). Of these, the Zaporizhzhia NPP, located near Enerhodar, southeast Ukraine, is by far the biggest, housing
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Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), yesterday, admitted that the country’s power supply has nosedived with challenges at over 14 generation plants keeping output at record low. According to the agency, power generating profile in the last two months showed that 14 gas stations were either not generating at all or had
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The 11 Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos), under the umbrella of the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED), have said not all approved metering schemes, active in the country, offer meters at no immediate expense to customers. This was made known by ANED’s Executive Director, Research and Advocacy, Sunny Oduntan, while clarifying
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