The Chairman of Senate Committee on Power, Gabriel Suswam, said on Monday the National Assembly was working with the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to put...
The Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has assuaged fears over the effect of the proposed tariff increase that has been suspended by the federal government of...
Power distribution companies (Discos) on Sunday revealed that the decision to increase electricity tariffs beginning from 1st July was not a unilateral one made by electricity...
Nigeria’s West African neighbours – Togo, Benin and Niger – received a total invoice of N32.04 billion for the electricity supplied to them by the country...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Tuesday threatened to sanction seven electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) for failing to comply with its order on capping of...
Electricity consumers in the country would henceforth pay more for pre-paid meters following the hike in the price of the items by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said on Saturday at least 62.3 percent of electricity consumers in the country were still on estimated billing as at...
The Minister of Power, Engr. Saleh Mamman, said Tuesday the suspension for three months of implementation of the proposed electricity tariff in the country was in...
The latest quarterly report of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has revealed a wide metering gap among electricity users with 59.74% of the consumer population...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has declared that the accumulated bill of the power supplied by Nigeria to its West African neighbours – Benin, Togo...
The Nigerian Electricity regulatory Commission (NERC), in a major policy shift that aims at reforming the Nigerian electricity billing structure, has announced a directive repealing the...
Power Distribution Companies (Discos) in the country and the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) have approached the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) with a view to...
The House of Representatives Committee on Power, on Tuesday asked the National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to halt plans to effect the new electricity tariffs earlier...
The Nigerian government will commence regulating estimated electricity bills issued by power distribution companies to customers without meters come February. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC)...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) Monday denied hiking electricity tariffs, saying the review of the Multi-Year Tariff Order, (MYTO) does not translate to an immediate...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has approved an increase in electricity tariff by the 11 Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) in the country. The directive on the...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Tuesday gave the eight power distribution companies (DisCos) till December 7, 2019, to explain why their license should not...
The Association of Nigeria Electricity Distributors (ANED) has said Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) will need N8.7 billion to comply with the remittance order by the Nigerian...
Eight electricity distribution companies (Discos) in the country may have their licences revoked by the Federal Government for their failure to meet the remittance threshold as...
Power generation companies (Gencos) have petitioned Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), the Presidency and other relevant agencies of government over over a recent administrative charge imposed...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has debunked claims that it approved a new electricity tariff in its new order released last Wednesday. A statement on...
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Monday issued a stern warning to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) over electricity tariff. The president of the Congress, Comrade...
The Management of Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) has said it is ready to comply with directives from the Nigerian Electricity Regulation Commission (NERC) to commence...
One of the licensed Meter Asset Providers (MAP) has described as unrealistic, the directive by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to begin roll-out of new...
Stakeholders in the country’s electricity market on Wednesday bickered at a public hearing as the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) asked the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission...
The daily energy report of the Electricity Generation Companies (GenCos) comprising gas-fired and hydro stations in Nigeria, reveals that an average of 4,313 megawatts of electricity...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has said the obligation to ensure electricity consumers have meters rests on the shoulders of the Distribution Companies (Discos). This...
Federal Government’s inability to periodically review power sector’s Multi Year Tariff Order (MYTO) has resulted to a loss of over N1.4 trillion. Executive Secretary, Association of...
Electricity distribution companies in Nigeria’s power sector Sunday announced that they are no longer tasked with the responsibility of providing meters to power consumers under their...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) is working to ensure that firms, which applied to serve as meter asset providers under the new metering arrangements, begin...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has said that power distribution companies in the country must fully automate their commercial system operations in the sector. According...
The latest quarterly report of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has shown that the nation’s power grid collapsed 97 times since the privatisation of the...
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has outlined the gains inherent in government’s new metering policy, the Meter Asset Provider policy, MAP,...
Three of Nigeria’s international customers who were supplied up to 300 megawatts (MW) of electricity in 2018, are still indebted to the country, a quarterly report...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has said the low level metering in the power sector is responsible for low revenue collection by electricity distribution companies...
The Power generation companies (Gencos) have blamed electricity distribution companies (DISCOs) and the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) for the current low power supply to Nigerians....
A total grid collapse on December 21 increased Nigeria’s total grid colapse in 2018 to 12, data from the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing has...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has lamented poor remittances by electricity distribution companies to the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc (NBET) for the energy sold...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has issued six new power generation licenses to investors willing to invest in the nation’s power sector. According to the...
There are indications that the Federal Government is set to begin fresh negotiations with preferred bidders for three power generation plants of the National Independent Power...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said an average of 1,185 electricity complaints about various electricity services rendered by power distribution companies were made in the...
The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) said it was ready to deploy 222,728 prepaid meters for its customers in the Federal Capital Territory, Kogi, Niger and...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has decried the frequent increase in electricity tariff without significant improvement in power supply in the country....
The total number of power consumers with prepaid meters by electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) in the country rose by 6.23 percent in the first quarter of...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has stated that Nigeria must fix the power sector in order to alleviate poverty. Dogara also reiterated...
The Electricity Distribution Companies in the country said the problem of epileptic power supply in the country may not end in the next five years if...
The seeming suspicious mode of relationship between the federal government and electricity distribution companies (Discos) in Nigeria’s power sector on Friday got a little more scrappier...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Wednesday suspended the board of directors and other management staff of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) over failure of...
The Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said it has issued power generation and distribution licenses to two firms in Ariaria Market in Aba, Abia state. Ariaria...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said it has given “No Objection” approval to another set of nine firms seeking to procure and install meters for...