The Decentralised Grid: How Small Businesses and Estates are Quietly Divorcing the National Grid

The Decentralised Grid: How Small Businesses and Estates are Quietly Divorcing the National Grid

Across commercial hubs and gated residential communities in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, and Ibadan, a quiet infrastructure divorce is underway. Commercial clusters, private housing estates, and small manufacturing firms are systematically disconnecting their primary operations from the national grid. Spurred by relentless grid collapses, steep distribution company (DisCo) tariff revisions, and the erratic delivery of…

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MTN, Flour Mills Among 38 Firms Flouting Lagos Power Rules

  The Lagos State Electricity Regulatory Commission has named 38 companies operating across Lagos that have failed to apply for licences and the necessary regularisation despite repeated directives, raising fresh questions about compliance in the state’s emerging electricity market. The firms, which include MTN, Flour Mills, Golden Penny, First Global Commerce Solutions Limited, African Steel…

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