UK Launches Frequency Regulation Grid Service

UK’s National Grid ESO comes live. The Dynamic Regulation is designed to correct continuous but small…

ENGIE Energy Commissions Mini-Grid in Niger State

ENGIE Energy Access has commissioned a mini-grid in a community in Niger state. The hybrid power…

Nigeria: Vandalism Caused National Grid Failure – Minister

Minister of Power, Aliyu Abubakar, says vandalism caused the failure of the national grid. Nigeria loses…

Renewables – Beyond Electricity Generation 

When we think of renewable energy, it is usually constrained within the context of electricity generation.…

Enabling Clean Cooking with Off-Grid Solar

One day as I silently pondered on why the woman who sold fried yam and potatoes…

IFC to Provide $400m for Electrification Via Solar Mini-Grids in Congo

IFC plans to kick off its Scaling Mini-Grid (SMG) programme. The subsidiary of the World Bank…

2 Years On: Nigeria’s First Commercial Undergrid Mini-grid A Success

The number of connected consumers is almost 300, up from 90. Mini-grid revenue doubles in over…

GenCos Requests Spinning Reserve to Balance Power Grid

APGC calls on NERC to reintroduce the spinning reserve. The last spinning reserve that was called…

Decentralised Electricity Market – The Case for Lagos State

Nine years down the Nigeria electricity privatisation exercise, adequate electricity supply remains a critical challenge affecting…

Activities Underway to Restore Grid Capacity to 4GW – NERC Chairman

Sanusi Garba, NERC Chairman, promises to resolve electricity problems The chairman says gas constraints and low…