Category: Power

Ikeja Electric, Inks 24 Hours Power Supply Deals With Enaro Energy, Ayobo Community

ADEOLA YUSUF

Ikeja Electric Plc said on Wednesday that it has signed a Tripartite Interconnected Mini-Grid Agreement with Enaro Energy Limited and Ayobo community, to provide reliable and uninterrupted electricity supply to Ishokan Phase1 Estate, Mercy Land Estate and Mercy Land Phase1 residents in Ayobo, Lagos State. The initiative, according to a statement sent to Platforms Africa, is in line with the Nigerian Electricity Regulation Commission goal of ensuring there is reliable and steady power supply across communities in the country through partnerships between Distribution Companies and Independent Power generators. READ ALSO:…

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Fire Outbreak At EKEDC Power Station In Lagos Island

ADEOLA YUSUF

Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) has announced a fire incident at its injection substation in Idumagbo, Lagos Island affecting electricity supply to customers in Idumagbo and Ajele areas. The incident occurred earlier on Tuesday around 3 pm when one of the 15MVA power transformers inside the substation caught fire. This announcement was made to the public by the EKEDC Corporate Communications General Manager, Godwin Idemudia. READ ALSO: Americans Asked to Conserve Power as Extreme Heat Threatens Electric Grid IBEDC Loss To Vandals Hits N600m In One Year – COO Lagos…

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CBN Begins Probe, Insists 10 Providers Divert Electricity Meter Funds

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Apex bank prayed Court for an order that commercial banks freeze the account of 10 Meter Asset Providers (MAPs) involved with the NMMP for 180 days, pending the outcome of its investigation, Mojec welcomes probe   The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has begun the probe of Mojec Meter Asset Management Company Ltd. (M3AC) and nine other Meter Asset Providers (MAPs) for alleged diversion of funds running into millions of dollars which the Nigerian government provided for the Mass Metering Programme. Platforms Africa reports that the apex bank has already…

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State Can Now Generate, Distribute Electricity – Senate

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What to know about the electricity bill 2022 passed by the Senate + answers to and-then-what questions provided by Power Committee Chairman about the new bill   The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday, July 21, 2022, passed the electricity bill 2022 that would allow states to generate and distribute power as well as solve the sector’s challenges. Platforms Africa reports that this came after the consideration of a report by the committee on power. Gabriel Suswan, Chairman of the committee, who said the bill sought to provide an ideal legal and…

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Why Grid Collapsed, TCN Gives Details After Fixing 6th System Failure

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Here below is the read-for-yourself full statement issued by Ndidi Mbah, General Manager Public Affairs of the TCN, and sent to Platforms Africa   The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has given reason for the latest national grid collapse, which rocked the country on Wednesday even as it announced that the system failure has been fixed. Platforms Africa, which broke the news, reported that the failure was the sixth suffered by the country’s transmission system in the last seven months. READ ALSO: BREAKING: National Grid Suffers 6th Collapse In 7…

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BREAKING: National Grid Suffers 6th Collapse In 7 Months

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The collapse, which happned 37 days after the June 13 system failure, crashed the power supply to 40 MW Nigeria’s electricity grid has, on Wednesday, collapsed again, causing a blackout in states across the country. Platforms Africa reports that the system failure, which is the sixth in the last 7 months, dipped the entire power supply nationwide to 40 mega watts. READ ALSO EXCLUSIVE: MDs Fired as Nigeria Takes Over Benin, Kano, Kaduna DisCos Nigeria In Darkness As National Grid Collapses 3rd Time in 24 Days You’ll Enjoy Improved Power…

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Why We Shut Down Customers’ Billing Channels -Ikeja Electric

ADEOLA YUSUF

Ikeja Electric has shut its customers billing and vending channels and infrastructures for 48 hours, between 15th to 17th July 2022 , to enable it carry out an upgrade. The management if the utility firm said this in a statement sent to Platforms Africa maintaining that customers of the Disco should buy energy ahead the shut down as they might not be able to access necessary information , vending and data. READ ALSO: Electricity Can Be Transmitted Through The Air EXCLUSIVE: MDs Fired as Nigeria Takes Over Benin, Kano, Kaduna…

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Electricity Can Be Transmitted Through The Air

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A New Zealand firm is trying to make an old idea work commercially Behind nikola tesla’s former laboratory at Wardenclyffe on Long Island, New York, are some old foundations. They are all that remains of a 57-metre tower which Tesla began building in 1901 as part of an experiment to transmit information and electricity wirelessly over long distances. It half worked. As he foretold, wireless communications have had world-changing effects. But he failed to get electric power itself to travel very far. As a consequence, within five years work stopped…

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Americans Asked to Conserve Power as Extreme Heat Threatens Electric Grid

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State officials asked people to turn up their thermostats even as temperatures were forecast to reach as high as 112 degrees Texas officials asked residents to conserve electricity Monday as extreme heat blanketed much of the state and threatened the power grid capacity. With temperatures in Texas forecast to reach as high as 112 degrees Monday, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, an organization that runs most of the state’s power grid, asked Texans to turn up their thermostats one or two degrees and to not run major appliances from…

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Investors Kick As Minister Explains Benin, Ibadan, 3 Other Discos Takeover

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What’s the implication of the receivership of the core investors in Kano, Benin, Kaduna and Ibadan Discos on power supply to customers? Aliyu answers this and other and-then-what questions about Fidelity bank loans and implication to electricity distribution, here   Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu, has declared that the power ministry has received a confirmation from the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) and the Central Bank of Nigeria that they are exercising the rights of lenders to the core investors in Kano, Benin, Kaduna, and Ibadan, Port Harcourt electricity distribution…

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