Category: Power

How Ghana power system collapsed, plunged country into total blackout 

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Here is a report on power crisis including a two-year-long crippling power outages between 2013 and 2015 in the West Africa country.     Ghana suffered a nationwide power outage late Sunday afternoon after the shutdown of the power system, officials confirmed in a statement. The state-owned power distributor, Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo), said ‘a challenge to the power system led to a total system shutdown around 2:10 p.m. local time.’ It said the technical team was still working to restore power supply to all bulk supply points…

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Nigeria signs deals for 70MW power supply to Togo

ADEOLA YUSUF

    Nigeria, a country battling with acute shortage of electricity to its 200 million citizens, has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) to supply 70 megawatts (MW) of power to West African nation – Togo.   The Executive Director, Generation, Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC), Engr. Kassim Abdullahi, disclosed the signing of PPA during an inspection of the Calabar Power Plant in Odukpani, Cross River State, maintaining that the supply to Togo would be carried out from the power plant. The company, Abdullahi added in a statement by…

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BREAKING Nigerian Power grid collapses, plunges Lagos, others into darkness

ADEOLA YUSUF

    The Nigerian electricity transmission system also known as the National grid collapsed on Wednesday plunging the whole of Lagos, commercial capital, and major cities across the country into darkness. Though the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) was silent on the incident, Power utilìty companies in Lagos, Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) and Ikeja Electric, confirmed the collapse in separate tweets. Spolesperson for TCN, Ndid Mbah, did not pick calls made to her number, she did not also respond to a text message seeking clarification on the grid collapse.…

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Theft: Why we Introduced Incentives for Whistle-blowers – Ikeja Electric

ADEOLA YUSUF

  One of the Nigeria’s power utility firms, the Ikeja Electric (IE) Plc, said it has introduced incentives for those willing to expose energy thieves within its network as a part of the Disco’s effort to curtail incidence of energy theft. IE said for established cases of energy theft, the whistle-blower would be rewarded from the reconnection penalty paid by the culprit in accordance with the fees stipulated in the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission’s (NERC) Order on Unauthorised Access to Electricity Supply, Meter Tampering and Bypass for non-maximum demand and…

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Meet Akindele, Schneider Electric GM Process Automation Sub-Saharan Africa

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Global energy management and automation company, Schneider Electric, has announced the appointment of Mr. Ajibola Akindele as the General Manager Process Automation, Sub-Saharan Africa. The company made this known in a press release made available to journalists. Prior to his appointment, Akindele who holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Lagos and a Master’s in Business Administration from the Vanderbilt University was the General Manager, Process Automation, Schneider Electric West Africa. Mr Akindele comes in with over twenty years wealth of experience in the Oil…

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Shell to deploy 500,000 Electric Vehicle’s charging points, ups investment

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Shell prepares itself to get a slice of the EV charging pie, targets 2025 deadline to complete Global deployment of 500,000 charging points   Shell, one of the largest oil and gas company, announced a new “strategy to accelerate its transformation into a provider of net-zero emissions energy products and services.” We know that the company is already engaged in electric vehicle charging, mostly through acquisitions (The New Motion in 2017, Greenlots in 2019 and Ubitricity most recently). The number of Shell charging points (globally) is expected to increase from about 60,000…

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Court orders arrest of popular Nigerian Pastor over EKEDC’s power theft

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Utility firm, EKEDC, reads riot act to Customers, begins clamp down on illegal connection   A Nigerian Court has ordered the immediate arrest and arraignment of the Pastor of the Power & Life Christian Mission, a Church in the Amukoko area of Lagos, over an unlawful re-connection of power supply from Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) to the Church premises The leading electricity utility firm in Nigeria, EKEDC, which confirmed this in a statement made available to Platforms Africa on Friday, warned its customers to refrain from engaging in…

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Renewables won’t come close to overtaking oil in decades ahead – OPEC

ADEOLA YUSUF

  OPEC insists World’ll still depend on oil, gas for 50% energy need by 2045 The renewables will not come anywhere close to overtaking oil and gas in the decades ahead, Secretary General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Dr Mohammad Barkindo, has declared. Barkindo added that the oil and gas sector will still supply over 50 per cent of the global energy needs by 2045. Barkindo made that assertion while presenting a special address at S&P Global Platts Americas Petroleum and Energy, held virtually on Wednesday. He…

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Shell alters oil investment, buys UK’s largest electric car charging firm

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Royal Dutch Shell has altered future investment dynamics for crude oil as it agreed to buy Ubitricity, owner of the largest public charging network for electric vehicles in the UK. The oil major, with this, is expanding its presence along the power supply chain., a report by Financial Tmes read. Shell said on Monday it would buy 100 per cent of the company for an undisclosed amount. Ubitricity, founded in Germany, is a leading European provider of on-street charging for electric vehicles. The company, which integrates electric car charging…

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Disco plunges Nigeria Ex-President Shagari’s home into darkness over N6m debt

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Barely 25 months after the death of Nigeria’s Second Republic President, Shehu Shagari, the Kaduna Electric Distribution Company (KAEDCO) last Wednesday disconnected electricity supply to his home, plunging the occupants including his widows and grandchildren into darkness. The house was disconnected over unpaid bills estimated to be over N6 million, PUNCH reported quoting KAEDCO spokesman, Abdulaziz Abdullah. Occupants of the house, who also included late Shagari distance relations, were saved from darkness, as the light was later reconnected same day, following intervention or a surety who promised to settle…

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