South Africa power utility, Eskom has begun negotiations with Zesa Holdings for the refurbishment of its three small thermal power stations -- Harare, Bulawayo and Munyati.
The House of Representatives Committee on Power and Steel's $16 billion power sector probe has sparked many controversies and debate among Nigerians. In this right of reply, Mohammed Maigari Fagge writes that Mohammed Haruna's analysis on the power probe is
Cape Town residents can expect secondary outages due to equipment failures as load-shedding continues to place a huge strain on the city's electricity control and distribution network, the city's manager of public lighting, Charles Kadalie, has warned.
Makerere University scientists have successfully extracted biodiesel and biopetrol from oil palm, a locally available wild plant. The oil palm, locally called kinazi is commonly used as a decorative tree in compounds.
THE Lugogo thermal plant's contract is to be extended for three months, Eriasi Kiyemba, the Uganda Electricity Transmission Company's (UETCL) managing director, has said.
THE Government has approved a project to extend electricity to Kabuyanda sub-county, Isingiro district. The executive director of the Rural Electrification Agency, Godfrey R. Turyahikayo, said the World Bank-funded project would be completed by the end of this month.
THE recent pronouncement by the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) at a workshop in Lagos that ethanol fuel is good and reliable for firing of automobile engines in Nigeria, may have finally laid to rest controversies over its application as
The chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Education, Alhaji Farouk Lawan, has revealed that probe into the oil sector will soon commence shortly after the completion of the ongoing investigations in the power sector.
In Nigeria, it is often difficult to understand how government works and reasons. What ordinarily should be treated with dispatch is given the most lackadaisical treatment.
Welcome , even though belated, some power industry watchers and operators have opined that the nationwide tour of ongoing electricity projects embarked upon by the House of Representatives Committee on Power tantamount to putting the cart before the horse.
THE Russian company Sintezneftegaz Namibia has announced that it has started drilling the first oil exploration well in Kunene structure of Block 1711 situated offshore about 60 km from the coast and 750 km from Walvis Bay.
THE Construction of the proposed 200MW Karuma hydropower project is expected to kick off in September this year, according to the energy minister Daudi Migereko.
Since the beginning of the public sitting of the House of Representatives Committee on Power and Steel probing the multi-billion dollar National Independent Power Project (NIPP) contracts scam, Nigerians, and indeed the world, have been treated to series of shocking
As the first forum of India-Africa Leaders opens this morning in New Delhi, India, challenges posed by agriculture, human resources development, telecommunications and Internet technology as well as climatic change and energy security will dominate the talks.
COMMITTEE for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) in Delta State, yesterday, expressed worry over the persistent fuel scarcity in petrol stations across the nation and called on the Federal Government to ensure that the problem of scarcity in our
THE National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) had omitted "commercially sensitive" information in power supplier Eskom's tariff application, set to be published today , the regulator said yesterday.
FOLLOWING the directive of President Umaru Yar'Adua that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) and the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) should come up with an immediate solution to the lingering fuel crises in
The on-going probe by the House of Representatives into the award of power projects between 1999 and 2007 yesterday uncovered another abandoned project this time, a 520 megawatts Egbema Power project which was awarded in 2006.
