Electricity Tariff Hike - Court Rule On NERC Application for Stay of Proceedings Feb 22

 

Justice Mohammed Idris of a Federal High Court in Lagos will on February 22, decide whether or not to stay further proceedings in a suit instituted by a lawyer, Toluwani Adebiyi against the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), over the recent hike in electricity tariff.

NERC had filed the application for stay of proceedings pending the hearing and determination of its appeal against two previous rulings delivered by the judge.

Nigeria: Escravos Attack - Nigerian Govt. Losing N471 Million Daily in Gas, Electricity Disruptions

The Nigerian government on Tuesday counted its costs in terms of multiple losses suffered in massive disruption to gas and electricity supplies in the wake of last weekend's attacks on the Nigerian Gas Company's gas pipeline by suspected Niger Delta militants.

Government said the attack on the Escravos Lagos Pipeline System (ELPS) connected to Chevron Nigeria Limited's gas network at Escravos negatively impacted on the 600 mega watts (MW) Olorunsogo National Integrated Power Plant and other critical power projects in the region.

The immediate impact of the sabotage on the gas facility, Federal Ministry of Power sources said, has been the disruption in the sale and supply of 160

Nigeria to Refocus on Renewable Energy – Kachikwu

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has emphasised the need for Nigeria to give serious consideration to renewable energy as the solution to its energy challenges.
 

According to a statement by the corporation’s group general manager, group public affairs division, Ohi Alegbe, the minister, while speaking during an interview on the sidelines of the World Future Energy Summit currently holding in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, acknowledged that crude oil and gas are exhaustible resources, noting that the way to make energy accessible to Nigerians in every nook and cranny of the country is the exploit of renewable energy sources.

 NEMSA to Outlaw Use of Wooden Poles for Electricity Installation

The Nigerian Electricity Management Services Authority, NEMSA, has outlawed the use of wooden poles for electricity installations in the power sector.

Managing director of the agency, Peter Ewesor, who made this known while briefing journalists in Abuja yesterday, said the ban would take effect from this year.

Ewesor stressed that the use of fake or sub-standard materials would also no longer be tolerated in the power sector, adding that there are no quality wooden pole manufacturing companies in Nigeria.

Football Pitch in Nigeria Powered by Kinetic Energy: Vanity Project for Oil Multinational or Future for Renewables?

 

An innovative new football pitch in Lagos opened in December using power generated by the players running on special tiles that capture kinetic energy. The project at the Federal College of Education in Akoka is supported by multinational oil company Shell and uses technology developed by British company Pavegen.

“We found a community that had no light, has no way at night time for people to socialise or play sport,” Pavegen founder Laurence Kemball-Cook told RFI. “We're creating a real legacy project here to really change the way energy used and viewed in Africa,” he adds.

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More than 90 tiles located under the pitch capture kinetic energy generated by the movement of the players.

“Each tile produces up to 7 watts of power per footstep,” says Kemball-Cook. “If you had 8 people continuously walking over the tiles you could produce up to 56 watts of power continuously.”

Folawiyo Energy Denies Breaching DPR Regulations

Folawiyo Energy Limited (FEL) has denied violating regulations that guide the sale of petroleum products, noting that the company has not had its own products in storage for the past three months, Vanguard reports.

The company said during the period that it only stored and distributed products for the NNPC, without any involvement in collecting payments from the companies taking the NNPC stock.

The company’s spokesman, Adeshola Komolafe , said that FEL has notified the appropriate authorities of these facts and has protested the unfair attempt to tarnish its corporate reputation.

Source: Energy Mix Report