• The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has said that it will step up the current 5000 megawatts of electricity generation to 6000 by December, 2015.
  • The NERC Chairman, Dr Sam Amadi, made the pledge at a two-day workshop organised for stakeholders in the sector to chart a way forward in Abuja, on Tuesday.
  • Amadi said the workshop was to ensure that generation and transmission companies improve on their services by providing adequate power to Nigerians.
  • He said the essence of the workshop was to ensure that stakeholders in the industry reinforced their technical capacity on the grid in order to accommodate more energy.