…Says landlords’ bills shouldn’t be forced on tenants OpeOluwani Akintayo Lagos — The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has urged customers who have been charged beyond the capped bill by electricity Distribution Companies or Discos to get in touch with it via writing as the Discos would be made to giveRead More

OpeOluwani Akintayo Lagos — Electricity distribution companies, DisCos will commence collection of full tariffs starting from 2021 following recent increment by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC. Latest tariff review documents issued to each of the 11 distribution companies by NERC, ‘Extraordinary Review of Multi Year Tariff Order 2015’ says 100Read More

The Managing Director of Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) Engr. Adeoye Fadeyibi FNSE on Wednesday named among the lead judges at the ongoing Lagos Smart Meter Hackathon 2020.   The Smart Meter Hackathon is an initiative of the Lagos State Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources in partnership with Eko Innovation Centre to design, develop, and produce smart meteringRead More

Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) has announced grouping of its customers into five service bands depicting the quantity and quality of supply they receive. General Manager, Corporate Communications of the Company, Godwin Idemudia, who declared this in a chat with newsmen, noted that this is for quality service delivery in line with promise made onRead More

OpeOluwani Akintayo Lagos — While it is no longer news that electricity tariffs were hiked by between 50% and 100% depending on the location, what most electricity consumers are concerned with is how to cut down on electricity usage thereby saving cost. The first step is to identify the biggest energy-consumingRead More

The World Bank-backed power plant $900m Azura-Edo Independent Power Plant in Edo state has been unable to source dollars through the Central Bank of Nigeria, which has restricted access to the greenback in an effort to support the local naira currency, according to an industry executive and a financier briefedRead More

Amid lingering public outcry over the recent increase in electricity tariff, the number of the nation’s power plants sitting idle rose to 13 on Sunday.   While many Nigerians were still smarting from the hike in electricity tariff, power generation in the country dropped on Sunday as four more powerRead More