The Rural Electrification Agency (REA) recently launched the Renewable Asset Management Company (RAMCO) with an urgent mandate: rescue publicly funded...

Throughout this series, we have challenged a fundamental assumption in Nigeria’s power sector: that a regulator’s primary duty is determining...

The first three parts of this series established that cost-reflective tariffs require verifiable data, consumer protection begins with measurement, and...

Parts 1 and 2 established two foundational principles: cost-reflective tariffs require independently verifiable data, and true consumer protection begins with...

One of the primary responsibilities assigned to electricity regulators is consumer protection. Regulatory commissions at both federal and state levels...

Since the privatisation of Nigeria’s power sector in 2013, perhaps no phrase has generated more controversy than “cost-reflective tariff.”  ...

For more than a decade, Nigeria’s power sector reform has been trapped in a single, exhausting debate: How do we...

Electricity projects are built with steel, concrete, and transformers, but they are financed with something far less tangible: confidence.  ...

Nigeria's electricity crisis is often framed as a technical challenge. Discussions usually focus on generation capacity, transmission bottlenecks, distribution losses...

One of the biggest misconceptions in the electricity sector is that power projects fail because of engineering problems. In reality,...