GenCos Loses N122.79bn To Capacity Challenges In Five Months     Nothing less than N122.79 billion has been lost by Nigeria’s power generation companies (GenCos) between January to May this year. Pioneer Executive Secretary of the Association of Power Generation Companies, Dr. Joy Ogaji, said while available capacity...

Power Grid Collapses, TCN Reaches 90% Restoration     The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) on Tuesday reported the collapse of the national power grid. The spokesperson for the company said the incident occurred at 11:13am, and that restoration of the grid had reached 90 percent at the...

Privatisation Has Exposed Power Sector Weakness, Says Gencos     Electricity generation companies in the country have said the privatisation of the power sector has exposed the inherent structural weakness in the sector. The Gencos said they had continued to perform in line with industry agreements despite the...

Gas Shortage Stalls 23,081MW, Despite Gencos N200bn Fund   The dearth of gas stalled the generation of 23,081.5 megawatts of electricity in eight days despite the N200bn that was paid by the Federal Government recently to the power sector, particularly for settling gas debts. Investigations showed that...

Discos, Gencos Deny Knowledge Of FG’s N200bn Payment   Power generation and distribution companies on Thursday said they were unaware of any N200bn that was paid to the power sector by the Federal Government in the past three days. Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mele...

FG Offsets Gencos’ Gas Bill With N200bn     The Federal Government has in the past two to three days paid over N200bn for power supply in Nigeria, the Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kyari, declared on Wednesday. Also, the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors,...