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Solar energy rise fails to impress Nigerian lenders
Nigerian commercial banks are not impressed enough to commit resources into the burgeoning commercial and industrial solar market in Nigeria offering costly facilities for developers in the…
Regulation allowing direct purchase of electricity from producers flounders 2 years…
By May this year, it will be two years since Babatunde Fashola, minister of Power, Works and Housing, declared the eligible customer regulation which allows consumers of electricity above…
How to unlock N2.8 trillion annual revenue opportunity in Nigeria mini-grids
With approximately 55 percent of Nigeria’s population lacking access to electricity, a rate that has not improved over the last five years, there is a huge opportunity for the country’s…
Can NERC’s raft of metering policies unlock over N138bn investment opportunity?
Ten months after the Meter Asset Providers regulation was supposed to have kicked off, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), electricity sector regulator appears to be…
2019 is year of electric vehicles, not sure Nigerians know
Since Ben Murray-Bruce, the senator representing Bayelsa East senatorial district and chairman of Silverbird Group drove his swanky electric Kia car to the company’s Man of the Year Awards…
Incessant system collapse cause of general blackout in Nigeria
The current power outages experience across the country has been attributed to increasing waves of Power System Collapses and System Disturbances across the transmission value chain.
The…
More opportunities for local firms as NERC urges local content
Indigenous private sector players exercising active roles in the power sector value chain will henceforth heave a sigh of relief by being an active player in the power sector value chain,…
NERC considers capping estimated billing to speed up mass customer metering
Nigeria’s electricity regulator is fine-tuning a regulation that will cap the amount electricity distribution companies can charge in the current estimated billing regime in order to…
NERC considers capping estimated billing to speedup mass metering
Nigeria’s electricity regulator is fine-tuning a regulation that will cap the amount electricity distribution companies can charge in the current estimated billing regime, in order to…
Lingering court cases hinder power sector growth
With 33 active cases in different courts in the country, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) is the most sued regulator in Nigeria, spending more time handling briefs than…