Federal Government said yesterday that it was considering boosting its electricity supply in the country with nuclear energy.

Manager of operations and maintenance at Salini construction, the Italian company contracted to complete the decades-long Bumbuna hydroelectric project in the Tonkolili district, northern Sierra Leone, Serafino Ciro has confirmed to a team of visiting journalists that the electricity the

High energy bills in Kenya have cost the country its business competitive edge.

Senior officials from the Ministry of Energy in collaboration with the National Water and Electricity Company (NAWEC), the Public Utility Regulatory Authority (PURA) and the National Environment Agency (NEA) recently began a nationwide sensitization campaign on energy efficiency and energy

A senior official of Tullow Oil has said it will not hesitate to stop a deal between its partner Heritage Oil and an Italian oil company, ENI.

The southern African region is expected to fully recover from current crippling energy shortages in 2013 when it will enjoy the desired surplus power generation capacity. However, this would only happen if all short term generation projects are implemented by

Dalol Oil S.C., which is still under formation, and Wadi Al Sundus (WAS) Petroleum Ethiopia, a Sudanese Oil Company established in Ethiopia are to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on December 16, 2009. The agreement is to enable the

As motorists grapple with the lingering fuel scarcity in most parts of the country, marketers of petroleum products and officials of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday traded blames over who should be held responsible for the fuel crisis.

Two years after the suspension of reforms that would decentralise the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) and attract private participation in the sector, the Federal Government yesterday said it would proceed with the programme initiated by the previous administration.

The officials of the Ogaden National Front (ONLF) guerillas have warned the oil searching companies operating in the Somali region under the Ethiopian control, official told Shabelle radio on Tuesday.

CIC Energy, the company that is developing the Mmamabula energy complex at the Mmamabula coal field in Botswana, has decided to defer some financial, legal and engineering activities at the project because of regulatory hurdles encountered in SA.

It is always funny and at times annoying, to find respectable members of the society, especially those who out of incomprehensible desperation, feel nothing to wash their dirty linen in the public.

The Minister for Power and Steel, Dr. Lanre Babalola, has commended Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State for being the first ever in the history of the country to actualise the power dream of making electricity available within every

THE Director, National Center for Energy and Environment (NCEE), Energy Commission for Nigeria, Dr Lawrence Ezemonye, has lamented what he described as the delay in making laws that would back all energy programmes in the country, warning that unless such

The World Bank has recently announced that it will contribute to the funding of the building of thermo dynamic solar units, in 5 Arab countries, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Jordan and Egypt.

Inadequate rains have forced the energy ministry to extend contracts for diesel powered emergency electricity generator Aggreko for three more months, dampening earlier hopes that electricity bills would ease at the end of this year.

UMEME, the sole electricity distribution firm in Uganda, loses 84% of its energy every month in Tororo district due to illegal connections.