Welcome to Our Live Blog of power supply in this Niger delta

Sitting in our little 2 bedroom flat, listening to the thrum of the generator, Mr and Mrs Okada decided to give a live account of power improvements (and declines) in our neighbourhood.

We have been inspired by the sight of 3 successive Presidents promising us more electricity. This time we intend to help by providing live data from the field. We'll innovate, gyrate, and create. Soon we hope (with your assistance) will be a luck-o meter where we can measure how much things have really improved.

Its a survey of one, but we hope you'll share your stories, that NEPA will bring light and that laughter will at least abound.

If you really like the look of this little diary you may want to try reading from the bottom to the top.

(we still haven't figured out how to get blogger to keep our first entries at the top of the page and let you read through from the beginning )
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Tuesday, 8 June 2010

Sorry o - we don thief your light !!

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Alright so things are a bit more back to mormal.

Either the engineer at the NEPA control room has regained consciousness (see yesterday's post) or they've dragged him away and replaced him with someone "in between".

Of course there was absolutely no light last night when we hosted a visitor in from Abuja and only a couple of hours early this evening but still better than our pathetic normal "service".


Careful research suggests that our light might be borrowed from elsewhere - our regular taxi driver has been giving only one answer to the question of NEPA in his area the last few days 

"Its terrible, nothing nothing......"

And the same from our other correspondent in the highly scientific survey of 2 persons

On a more definite note some kudos to the World Bank and the Federal Government for deciding that its time to put at least some real money into renewables like solar, wind, biomass etc etc.

Its $200m - thats pretty micro in comparison to the billions and billions spent on regular power but its still a really big leap in support for renewables whose previous funding was pretty tiny.

We hereby volunteer our services as a pilot for urban solar pilot projects. We promise to be good, transparent, and wise users (and to sell our NEPA meter to the highest bidder). Governor Amaechi and relevant international agencies take note.
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