Oscarline Onwuemenyi 05 September 2017, Sweetcrude, Abuja – The Executive Secretary, Association of Power Generation Companies (APGC), Dr. Joy Ogaji,…
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The TCN said that national peak demand forecast stood at 19,100.00mw, while 11,165.40mw was the installed available capacity, 7,139.60mw was the available capacity, 7,000 mw was the current transmission capacity and network operational capacity was 5,500.00mw.
The report also stated that there had been 67 accidents with fatalities so far, while there were 37 accidents with only injuries adding that 59 persons were injured in the process.
“Mini-grids are already a feature of many parts of the world where privatization has taken place and they democratize access to power for those who want to produce below 1MW of power.”
He said sourcing of fund was also designed to realise the company’s ambition of increasing transmission capacity by 20,000 megawatts in few years time.
“NERC agreed that the N50,000 penalty was not enough and promised to look into the matter and report back in the coming week,” the document stated.
Already, a terse memo from the Nigerian electricity agencies has been sent to NIGELEC of the Republic of Niger and Community Electric du Benin (CEB) of the Republic of Benin, demanding that they make good on their debts or risk being cut off from electricity supply.
“Some of the power plants in the country now lie idle because the operators shut them down rather than incur further losses from gas suppliers whose debts are not settled,” said Nwani.
Michael James 09 August 2017, Lagos – The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has revealed how over N11 trillion meant…
“Notwithstanding the volatile nature of the area, however, TCN initiated the process for procurement and installation of a 40MVA 132/33kV mobile power transformer, in an attempt to bridge the shortfall in bulk electricity transmission to distribution load centers that supply the electricity to Damboa and environs.”
