Nigeria’s power generation to increase by 340mw in December
Businessam Staff
June 9, 2017
The Federal Government’s planned addition of 20,000 megawatts of electricity to the national grid received a boost Thursday when Babatunde Fashola, minister of power, works and housing announced that about 340 megawatts of electricity would be added to the national grid by December, 2017. Fashola said this during his inspection tour of Afam Power Plant […]
Nigeria’s electricity concerns to ease as Forcados pipeline resumes
Olusegun AbisoyeJune 7, 2017
Concerns over Nigeria’s epileptic power supply situation are expected to ease on the back of resumption of oil and gas production activities at the Forcados export pipeline. This is coming on the heels of Shell Petroleum lifting the Forcados force majeure. Power supply in Africa’s largest economy dropped significantly from 3,959 megawatts to 2,662mw in […]
Nigeria’s coal deposits can sustain additional 4,300MW for 20 years – Experts
Businessam StaffMay 15, 2017
As Nigerians continue to grope in darkness, experts say that diversifying the country’s energy mix to include coal-to-power projects can add an additional 4,300MW to its electricity power generation for 20 years with its proven coal deposits estimated at about 2.8 billion metric tons. “At the calorific value of coal in the Anambra basin (Enugu, Anambra, […]