Electricity: Fresh Workers’ Strike Looms As Unions’ Dispute Deepens   Nigeria may experience another round of electricity blackout with the deterioration of trade union relationship between workers in the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and their national umbrella body, the Senior Staff Association of Electricity and...

Discos Make 100% Remittance As TCN Enforces Rules   The enforcement of electricity market rules by the Market Operations arm of the Transmission Company of Nigeria has compelled power distributors to remit 100 per cent of the invoice issued them by the MO. This came as workers...

Electricity Grid Collapses Eight Times, Hinders Productivity For six consecutive months, Nigeria’s power grid witnessed severe instability caused by poorly maintained distribution networks. Since May 6, 2019, Nigeria’s electricity grid has recorded varying degrees of instability that led to about eight system collapses, which caused blackouts...

Discos Reject 8,848MW Of Electricity In A Week   Power distribution companies in the country left a total of 8,848.24 megawatts of electricity unused in one week, latest data from the Transmission Company of Nigeria have shown. The amount of power unutilised by the 11 Discos stood...

Power Generation Grid Collapses To 145MW   The total amount of power on Nigeria’s grid collapsed from a peak of 4,735.8 megawatts on Friday to as low as 145MW on Saturday but the Transmission Company of Nigeria said it had been restored. Industry data obtained in Abuja...

TCN Attracts $1.66bn, Plans Massive Increase In Power Transmission   The Managing Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Mr Usman Gur Mohammed has said with proper planning, the firm has attracted $1.66 billion to raise bulk power wheeling capacity from 8,100 megawatts (MW). Mr Mohammed...