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68NewsNigeria promises clean, stable power in four years to thousands of homes, businesses
Nigeria has promised to make clean and stable electricity supply accessible to 300,000 homes and 30,000 business outfits in the country in...
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50NewsUtilities, DRE companies should end prolonged silo operations – Power for All’s Skierka
Utilities and private sector decentralized renewable energy (DRE) companies should aim to end a prolonged practice of undertaking their operations in silos,...
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89EventsPower Nigeria 2019
Date: 24-26 September 2019 Venue: Landmark Centre, Lagos, Nigeria Website: www.power-nigeria.com Power Nigeria connects power and energy manufacturers and suppliers to buyers...
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216RE-talkThe Urgency and Appropriateness of Climate Response
By Okafor Akachukwu In 1973, following the publication of Dr Fritz Schumacher’s widely acclaimed “Small is Beautiful”, the world’s attention was drawn...
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435NewsREA electrifies yet another Nigerian market
Nigeria’s Rural Electrification Agency (REA) has completed its provision of alternative clean and affordable power supply to another Nigerian market – Ariaria...
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527NewsNigeria’s commercial banks still ignore solar market, report says
Commercial banks in Nigeria are still largely absent from the country’s commercial and industrial (C&I) solar market, offering debt that developers consider...
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262RE internationalOil industry has to partake in reducing global carbon footprints – OPEC Sec Gen
Secretary General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Dr. Mohammad Barkindo, has said that oil producers could help the world...
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302NewsNigeria’s President switches on 9.5MW off-grid power plant in south-eastern market
Short of any unforeseen development, Nigeria’s president, Mr. Muhammadu Buhari, would on Tuesday commission a 9.5 megawatts (MW) electricity generation plant built...
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462NewsEU, REA plan accelerated deployment of electricity using mini grids
Nigeria’s Rural Electrification Agency (REA) would work with the European Union and German Government through the Nigerian Energy Support Programme (NESP) –...
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360NewsNigeria disburses N1.9bn accumulated in rural power fund to investors
Nigeria yesterday paid out N1, 952,583,434 out of an about N2 billion that has accumulated into its Rural Electrification Fund (REF) to...
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319News‘States should get involved for DRE to penetrate rural Nigerian communities’
State governments in Nigeria should get involved and push through investments in Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE) to electrify semi-urban and rural communities...
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6221RE-talkGiant Strides Made in Accelerating Off-Grid Energy, but Barriers Remain
By Mark Amaza* and Ifeoma Malo** When the Scaling Off-Grid Energy (S.O.G.E.) project was launched in Nigeria in late 2017, its goal...
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357NewsNigeria’s rural electrification efforts gets $150m backing from AfDB
Nigeria’s plan to improve electricity supply to her rural communities through the Nigeria Electrification Project (NEP) managed by the Rural Electrification Agency...
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428NewsNigeria now generating 2MW of wind power, Fashola claims
Nigeria now generates and transmits two megawatts (MW) of electricity into her national grid from the 10MW Katsina wind power farm in...
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315NewsSEC rolls out rules for Nigeria’s green bonds, sets clarity for issuance
Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has officially launched rules for the issuance of green bonds on the country’s stock exchange, a...
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480NewsHow climate change will affect your health
A new report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned of dire consequences if governments do not...
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9211Features14 solar IPPs signed, 1125MW promised, zero electron delivered
OGN, imagines that it is more than two years since Nigeria signed agreements with solar power plants developers but no single electron...
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791NewsNigeria backs mini grids to end power shortage
Nigeria will be looking to operators in its emerging mini grid electricity sub-sector to break up the monopoly enjoyed by its electricity...
