FG to impose new electricity tariff on universities, teaching hospitals over renewable energy – Tegbe

The Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, said the Federal Government plans to enforce energy tariffs connected the usage of its completed renewable vigor assets by 25 tertiary institutions and teaching hospitals successful Nigeria.

Tegbe disclosed this on Wednesday at the unveiling of the state-owned Renewable Asset Management Company, RAMCO, successful Abuja.

According to him, the tariffs would assistance support the Federal Government’s renewable vigor assets crossed the country.

“It is simply a caller dawn. We are precise bully astatine gathering nationalist assets but mediocre astatine sustaining them. RAMCO offers a antithetic exemplary to renewable energy. Nigeria has lived excessively agelong with embarrassing electricity.

“Some universities came to maine connected a courtesy sojourn to convey maine aft utilizing escaped airy for 2 years. I told them, convey you; the pro bono is over. We are coming to commission, and you volition wage tariff. The aforesaid happening with teaching hospitals,” helium said.

Earlier, the Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency, REA, Abba Aliyu, re-echoed the minister’s stance connected the instauration of tariffs for the Federal Government’s renewable vigor assets successful public...