TCN Installs 30 Power Transformers In 15 Months The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has disclosed that within the last 15 months, it had installed 30 transformers across the country to upgrade its electricity transmission capacity. It also called on the 11 electricity distribution companies (Discos)...

Power Gencos Gear Up For Force Majeure Over N600bn Debt Electricity generation companies (Gencos) in Nigeria’s power sector may be forced to declare force majeure on their operations anytime soon on account of accumulated debts owed them by the market since 2013, a document seen...

Power: Unstable Supply Boosts Stabilizers Market Top voltage Stabi-liser and automatic voltage regulator, AVR manufacturers are attracting additional market share as a result of the growing demand for stabilisers or regulators to protect equipment or machine occasioned by unstable power supply in the country. A...

Why N16.6bn Power Surveillance Projects Failed To Improve Grid The Managing Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Mr Usman Gur Mohammed said three attempts for a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) to monitor electricity grid have failed, with one project costing $46...

Power: Benin Republic, Niger Pay Nigeria $10m After Disconnection Threat The Republics of Benin and Niger have paid $10.1m as electricity bill to Nigeria to avert being disconnected from their power source in Nigeria after the Federal Government threatened to disconnect debtors. It was also learnt...

Discos: We’ve capacity To Distribute 6,288MW Of Electricity Power distribution companies say they have capacity to take and distribute 6,288.96 megawatts of electricity, refuting the Federal Government’s claim that the Discos can only handle 5,000MW. According to them, the capacity of Discos to distribute about 6,300MW...