There’s looming darkness in the country as the national electricity grid, centrally managed from Osogbo, Osun State, collapsed at approximately 4:30 pm on Thursday, March 28. Following the incident, various distribution companies spanning the nation’s 36 states disclosed that their feeders were rendered inactive, resulting in widespread blackouts across …
Read More »Nigeria's electricity grid collapses again
Nigeria has plunged into darkness once again as the nation’s electricity grid collapsed. The grid collapsed at approximately 11:51 AM on Sunday, February 4, reducing the system’s capacity from 2,407 megawatts to a mere 31MW by noon and reaching zero by 1 PM. Despite the Federal Government privatising …
Read More »Nigeria in darkness as national grid collapses again
Nigeria’s electricity grid has once again thrown the country into darkness as the government operated system collapsed on Monday, December 11. The system collapsed at about 1pm cutting down electricity from 4,032.80 megawatts at about 12pm to 43 megawatts 1pm and a meagre 303 megawatts at about 5:00 pm. …
Read More »Electrifying Cooking: Decarbonizing Africa’s Electricity Grid Towards Net Zero
In Africa, the average amount of time spent collecting firewood is 2.1 hours, which robs women and girls of hundreds of hours every year. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS by Joyce Chimbi (dubai) Tuesday, December 05, 2023 Inter Press Service DUBAI, Dec 05 (IPS) – Across the African continent, many first-born children in …
Read More »The Grid: Now You See Us
#FeaturebyTGM What does King of Boys 2 have in common with A Naija Christmas? Or Anikulapo with Gangs of Lagos? What does Jagun Jagun have in common with Shanty Town? What, pray tell, does the Aki and Pawpaw movie have in common with Battle on Buka Street? And how does …
Read More »Electricity firms face penalties for ‘manipulating’ grid in Ofgem crackdown
Electricity companies will no longer be able to deploy a controversial tactic that forces up bills at the expense of consumers, the energy watchdog has said as it unveiled rules designed to curb firms making “excessive” profits in the winter. Ofgem said electricity generators could face “stiff penalties” of up …
Read More »‘We cried on the grid’: Emotional ending for racing legend
Tony Kanaan couldn’t hold back tears as the reality set in. With lap 200 of this year’s Indianapolis 500 in the books, his racing career was complete. It ended the way it began, racing wheel-to-wheel with countryman Helio Castroneves. The pair were kart racing rivals as children in Brazil’s Belo …
Read More »FG disconnects discos from national grid over debt
The Transmission Company of Nigeria and the Market Operator have begun a massive disconnection of debtor electricity distribution companies from the national grid over debt. This came after notices of disconnection from the grid served on some of the Discos by the Market Operator. Punch reported that the MO, …
Read More »Ukraine power substation fire leaves Odesa’s grid on the brink
Prime Minister Denys Shmyal says the ‘scale of the accident is significant’ after fire at an electrical substation left nearly 500,000 people without power. A fire broke out at an overloaded electrical substation in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa on Saturday, leaving nearly 500,000 people without power in a …
Read More »How Ricciardo could still end up on the F1 grid
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has revealed Daniel Ricciardo will take on reserve driver duties at several grand prix in 2023. Ricciardo will return to Milton Keynes as the team’s third driver next season after he was paid out from McLaren with one year remaining on his contract to …
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