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It is not the responsibility of the consumers to buy meters, poles - NERC

It is not the responsibility of the consumers to buy meters, poles – NERC

The terms under which electricity customers can purchase transformers, meters, poles or any other assets for Electricity Distribution Companies have been outlined by the National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) (DisCos). A consumer must sign a contract with the DisCos outlining when and how they would be reimbursed for the cost of the transformer or other bought asset if they purchase…

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Scotland Hydro Nation Chair to lead water quality project to protect river ecosystems

New research led by the University of Stirling is to explore how pollution and climate change are impacting freshwater ecosystems for the first time. Prof Andrew Tyler provides a summary of the project and its ambitions.

The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) launched a call in April 2022 for projects that would address a significant gap in our understanding of how pollutants enter, transform and interact within rivers, and with the ecosystems that rivers support. The Understanding changes in quality of UK freshwaters call is part of a £8.4 million programme of research funded by NERC, with Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) that will support innovative collaborations including those with intervention-focused organisations and practitioners, creating a community of researchers and funding projects that span the three thematic areas of the programme.

Prof Andrew Tyler, Scotland Hydro Nation Chair, leads one of the five projects funded. Prof Tyler's project, MOT4Rivers, sees a consortium led by University of Stirling pulling on expertise from the James Hutton Institute, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, The School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and University of Glasgow, along with valuable project partners to investigate how pollutants interact with rivers and ecosystems, and devise a system to monitor and measure pollution.

For centuries, human activities have impacted our rivers by shifting the sources and combinations of physical, biological and chemical drivers and pressures. However, our understanding of their impact on ecosystems has been limited by viewing each in isolation and not considering their combined effects.

Our freshwater species are being challenged by a bewildering combination of pollutant cocktails (mixtures) whose effects are poorly understood. At the same time, climate-change driven shifts in water quantity (more frequent floods, longer periods of low flow) and warming waters are expected not only to be influencing the function, physiology, abundance and biological timings of freshwater ecological communities directly, but also the delivery and potential toxicity of these cocktails respectively.  It is not simply the water pathway that we need to consider, but also the re-mobilisation of contaminants and the changing patterns of exposure that potentially magnify the effects on biota (i.e. organism sensitivity).  Increasing urbanisation and changes in rainfall intensity and its seasonality, different catchment processes all have the potential to increase inputs of these emerging contaminants to the environment.

Our research, through the £2million MOT4Rivers project, will address these gaps by embracing the digital revolution through innovative technologies and transformative data analytics to deliver a step change in our knowledge and understanding.  Our approach has three strands. The first will turn a spotlight on the Almond catchment in West Lothian, a sub catchment of the Firth of Forth catchment.  The Almond is a typical catchment encompassing rural to urban land uses through rigorous investigations that will deliver high temporal resolution data. This investigation will provide new understanding of acute/event-based impacts on freshwater ecosystems.

The River Almond in West Lothian; Image credit: Scottish Water

Secondly, we will use national scale datasets and cutting edge data analytics tools to investigate the impacts of longer-term exposure to pollutant cocktails across the UK on water quality and ecosystem health. These findings will provide new understanding of chronic/long term impacts on freshwater ecosystems.

Thirdly, we will integrate our new evidence base and understanding into a risk-based probabilistic model.  The model will allow the exploration of the relationships between environmental change, declining river quality, multiple pollutants and ecosystem impacts.  Our research will develop the evidence base to understand changing pollutant sources, delivery pathways and the environmental tolerances and boundaries within which organisms can thrive and flourish (i.e. the ecosystem safe space).

Together, MOT4Rivers will inform priorities for policy, regulation and investment to design cost effective programmes of measures to promote and enhance sustainable freshwater ecosystems under a changing climate.

For more information on the project please see the University of Stirling press release, follow #HydroNationChair on Twitter and come back soon for a project webpage under R & I Infrastructure.

#You can keep up to date with the other four projects and overall programme via the Freshwater Quality Programme twitter and #UKFreshwaterQualityProgramme which is being championed by the University of Leeds.

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37 firms get licences to produce 762.3MW

37 firms get licences to produce 762.3MW

…metering drops by 71.86% in three months Fresh licenses and permits have been issued to 37 companies to produce a total of 762.3 megawatts of electricity in order to boost power supply across the country, data obtained from the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission showed. An analysis of the commission’s latest Fourth Quarter 2021 Report on Sunday also indicated that the metering of power…

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57% Electricity Consumers on Estimated Billing Says NERC, Discloses Plan for Unmetered Customers

57% Electricity Consumers on Estimated Billing Says NERC, Discloses Plan for Unmetered Customers

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) says 57.07 per cent of electricity consumers in the country were still on estimated billing as at September 2021. NERC made this known in its Third Quarter Report 2021 obtained on Tuesday by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos from its website. The document showed that only Ikeja, Benin, Enugu and Port Harcourt electricity Distribution…

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Chairman: NERC Has Not Approved Review Of New Electricity Tariff

Chairman: NERC Has Not Approved Review Of New Electricity Tariff

Sanusi Garba, the Chairman, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), says the commission has not approved any new tariff rate review in recent times. Mr Garba told journalists in Abuja on Friday that the last tariff review was approved on December 31, 2021, and became effective in February 2022. “I want to, on behalf of the management of NERC, clearly state that as of today, we have not…

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Blackout: FG investigates cause of national grid collapse

Blackout: FG investigates cause of national grid collapse

The Federal Government says it has commenced investigation into the cause of the collapse of the National grid. Solacebase had reported how the grid collapsed on Friday, plunging the nation into darkness. However in a statement on Saturday, the Minister of Power , Abubakar Aliyu, said efforts were in place to tackle the problem. The statement said the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission…

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Why we haven't solved Nigeria's power problem -- Minister

Why we haven’t solved Nigeria’s power problem — Minister

The Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu, on Wednesday spoke to journalists on the current power outage and why the country has yet to make real progress in raising power generation and supply. Mr Aliyu blamed the outage and the collapse of the national grid on maintenance problems and gas shortages. Read his remarks below: The issue we’re currently facing now, just like I told you, when I came for…

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Full list: Senate okays nine nominees as NPC, NERC commissioners

Full list: Senate okays nine nominees as NPC, NERC commissioners

The Senate on a Tuesday confirmed five nominees appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari as Commissioners of the National Population Commission.Also confirmed were four other nominees as Commissioners of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission.The confirmation of the nominees followed the consideration of two separate reports by the Committees on National Identity and National Population;…

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Pateto (dog, he/him) and Nerce (miscellaneous, he/him)

Two characters I made up and scribbled comics about in high school. Pateto was made by modifying a regular small dog in 2011, and Nerce was sewn from scratch in 2017.

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I too am terrified by Noah as a concept but also he’s my favorite and I’m always excited when he’s involved in bullshit cause some day his contribution to drama will be wanting to fuck dream and so every time I hear his name I think maybe this is the one, maybe the time has finally come

Noah is pouring over Dream's Reddit post as we speak. He's scared of the feelings it's awakening within him. He's scared of what it all might mean.

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Consumers kick over silent increase in electricity tariff amid fuel scarcity

Consumers kick over silent increase in electricity tariff amid fuel scarcity

Okechukwu Nnodim Electricity consumers on Thursday kicked against the silent increase in the tariff payable by customers to power distribution companies for electricity consumed. They said it was worrisome that the government was allowing Discos to raise electricity tariff amid fuel scarcity across the country. Adulterate fuel imported into country about two weeks ago had led to fuel scarcity…

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FG Restructures Electricity Distribution Companies, Takes Over Boards

FG Restructures Electricity Distribution Companies, Takes Over Boards

Federal government has announced the restructuring of five electricity distribution companies, also known as DISCOs. This was contained in a statement jointly signed by the Executive Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Sanusi Garba, and Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Alex Okoh and made available to the journalists. According to them,…

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