Electricity

A bill seeking to prohibit the issuance of estimated electricity bill to electricity consumers in the country has passed second reading at the house of representatives. The Electric power sector reform act (amendment bill), sponsored…

The failure of successive governments to fund capacity expansion in generation, distribution, and transmission networks led to the collapse of the electricity industry, as the national grid could no longer satisfy the growing energy…

A bill to criminalize the use of ‘estimated billing’ in the calculation of electricity consumed and to be paid for by consumers by Nigeria’s electricity distribution companies has passed first reading in the House of Representatives.…

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) says meter asset providers (MAP) will install meters at customers’ premises within 10 working days of payment. A document made available to TheCable by Usman Arabi, head of public…

A total of 23 power generation companies produced and supplied 2,666,906.88 megawatts of electricity worth N48.23bn in January 2018 but received only N6.1bn as payment, according to the latest report of Gencos performance. In the…

THE House of Representatives ad-hoc Committee to curb Excessive Electricity Charges being levied on consumers by distribution companies (Discos) yesterday said it would meet with community development associations (CDAs) in different…