Egypt and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday awarded contracts to connect the two nation’s power grids, in a project that could allow the countries to exchange as much as 3 gigawatts of electrical capacity. Orascom Construction and Hitachi ABB Power Grids will undertake the work in Egypt, while a separate consortium of Hitachi ABB and SSEM will carry out…
President Muhmmadu Buhari has expressed the commitment of his administration administration to end estimated billing in electricity supply in the country and ensure that Nigerians pay for what they consume.President Buhari, in a thread of tweets on his verified Twitter handle, @MBuhari, on Wednesday evening, said the Federal Government was funding the ongoing first phase…
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has ordered the 11 Distribution Companies (DisCos) to suspend the September 1 tariff increase for 14 days.The NERC Order on Suspension of the MULTI YEAR TARIFF ORDER (MYTO) 2020 released on Tuesday night and signed by the Chairman, Prof. James Momoh, said from September 28, 2020 to October 11, 2020,…
