{"id":19900,"date":"2015-06-17T11:41:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T11:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=19900"},"modified":"2015-06-17T11:41:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T11:41:45","slug":"nigeria-5-6-billion-power-plants-sell-off-stalls-on-gas-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nigeria-5-6-billion-power-plants-sell-off-stalls-on-gas-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria $5.6 billion power plants sell-off stalls on gas shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s privatisation of 10-independent power plants (IPPs) that could fetch up to $5.6 billion is stalling due to a lack of gas supply, the chief executive of Aiteo Power and Gas said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lack of gas is stalling the deals,&#8221; Ransome Owan told a power conference in Lagos late on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Africa&#8217;s biggest economy broke up its monopoly on power generation and distribution by privatising the sector two years ago, hoping to attract foreign investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s privatisation of 10-independent power plants (IPPs) that could fetch up to $5.6 billion is stalling due to a lack of gas supply, the chief executive of Aiteo Power and Gas said. &#8220;A lack of gas is stalling the deals,&#8221; Ransome Owan told a power conference in Lagos late on Tuesday. Africa&#8217;s biggest economy broke up its monopoly on power generation and distribution by privatising the sector two years ago, hoping to attract foreign investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}