The Friction Between State Electricity Markets and DisCo Monopolies

The Friction Between State Electricity Markets and DisCo Monopolies

State governments across Nigeria are establishing their own independent electricity regulatory commissions, issuing state licences, and drafting bespoke sub-national power policies. This administrative cascade follows the fifth constitutional alteration and the enactment of the Electricity Act 2023, which formally stripped the central government of its exclusive hold over power markets. State capitals now project an…

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Nigeria Targets 70,000MW Despite Collapsing 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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