I am building the financial model for a client & these numbers from NBET for January 2023 is very revealing:
EGBIN that does 1,320 megawatts (1.32 GW) gave the NBET capacity load worth 14,485,059,213 billion naira in its final settlement statement (FSS) for January 2023
The total remittance collections from end users and excess remittance collections came out at 58%.
The Govt thru:
• Payment Assurance Facility
• World Bank PSRO Loan
• FG grants
= 11.85%
Follow me, I am going somewhere,
This means there's an impairment of 30.25% that has
accumulated for all other GENCOs from the historical tariff shortfall (over time) that has amounted to #300bn (reason the GENCOs are threatening to shutdown because of structure of Bill 33).
If the Tariff Shortfall is basically Cost Reflective Tariff- Actual Tariff (that makes
Minimum Remittance Order), and if 1 KW of electricity to end user is 56.43 naira in Abuja,
Then the problem with electricity are in the following areas:
1) NBET is not taking up all the load it gets from the GENCOs because of the estimated tariff shortfall 2) Discos have a 42%
Loan impairment to GENCOs through NBET known as tariff shortfall, and classified as historical tariff shortly if not paid in billing cycle and carried forward. 3) GENCOs do not have incentive to raise their generation capacity because of impairments, cost of maintenance, cost of
gas, LPFO, cost of generation equipment. 4) The DISCOs have a 42% impairment because of power theft (meter bypass), prepaid meter installation rate at around 38% and the loss that comes from estimated billing 5) The transmission infrastructure of the grid stations managed by TCN
Notice that the foundation of the entire problem is tariff shortfall that paralyzes the entire value chain,
If NBET is collapsed & states set up electricity boards that works with NERC to determine cost reflective tariff according to Bill Number 33 in the constitutional
amendments, you'll see these problems disappear one after another, and power supply will improve dramatically.
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I still believe Trump made a horrible diplomatic mistake asking the Canadian Government to detain Meng Wanzhou (the CFO of Huawei, and daughter to founder).
That decision led to Huawei exiting the use of android and fast-tracking the development of its own OS- Harmony.
It fast-tracked the stand-off for semi-conductor chips, and the enforcement of the Chinese National Security plan for tech that is making it attempt to annex Taiwan,
That decision showed China that the US Government will use the economy as leverage for territorial control
That decision fast-tracked the arrests and forced restructuring of Alibaba (that was majorly because the Politburo and Kremlin wants Jack Ma to develop a competitor to TARGET 2: A system that settles transactions for correspondent banks globally), as well as SPFY
If Hong Kong is the financial capital Shanghai always hoped to be, Taiwan is the semi-conductor capital Shenzen is working hard to become,
Picks for decoupling:
• China wants to annex Taiwan 🇹🇼 like it did to Hong Kong🇭🇰(violating the 50-Year agreement it signed with the UK
to keep HK as a special administrative zone until 2047). It wants Taiwan because of how strategic its semi-conductor industry is to its STEM
• China & Russia are developing an alternative to SWIFT (SPFY) by getting more Countries into AIIB framework
• China & Russia are deve
loping a correspondent bank settlement system to compete with TARGET 2 in Europe to enable them boycott the SWIFT
• China, Russia, India, Brazil, South Africa are working to introduce more countries to the BRICS to enable them adopt the Yuan as an alternative reserve currency
One part of the debt stock that constitutes 2.37% of total domestic debts (that is 73% of total debts) is what is called promissory notes.
Currently, the FG has issued notes worth #530bn in EEG (2.37% of the total domestic debt stock as certificates that can be redeemed through
purchase of government securities, used as tax deductions) under the Export Incentives & Miscellanous Act of 2003. As the 10th Senate, Ministry of Finance, Budget Office look for revenues in 2023 and block leakages to the current fiscal position, I will recommend they do the
following:
• Require that companies that apply for EEG under local content policy, have at least a 60% Nigerian shareholding
• Require that companies process raw materials they export to a minimum level of enterprise or consumer manufacturing grade
The series 8 talgo trains Lagos State acquired last January for the red line in Wisconsin was fairly used train, Governor Scott Walker acquired in 2009 from a Spanish manufacturer for $47m (and they did not end up using because of a lawsuit with Contractor)
The Steel used for
constructing the rail tracks is called carbon steel with a diameter of 1084; it cost $1,630 per metric tonne & you need 782 tonnes to construct 1km of rail track, multiplied by 37 km,
The rolling stock, elevated tracks (piling for elevation), stations, fare collection equipment
Should not bring the total cost to more than $150m for engineering, procurement and construction.
In 2009, the Asian Development Bank awarded a 75km single track project at $2.2m per km for a total cost of $170m.
In 2009, Libya awarded a project for standard gauge to Chinese
The people saying he's jumping the gun clearly do not understand how frustrating it is for a newly sworn in Governor to have creditors place "Irrevocable Standing Payment Order" on the FAAC account of the state to debit interest on principal from source, & having his eselensi