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  • CEII Newsroom — global energy press Current
  • Global reference exchange rates Current
  • Daily solar irradiation forecast, 18 world cities Current
  • Crude oil spot benchmarks (Brent, WTI) Current
  • World Development Indicators — every country Current
  • Retail petroleum product prices Not connected

Sector wire

All 165 headlines
  1. Offshore Energy
    2002-built jack-up comes to Asian yard for MOPU conversion ahead of gas field deployment (opens Offshore Energy in a new tab)
  2. Nairametrics
    Kenyan parliamentary leaders back Dangote’s Lamu refinery, pledge support for IPO (opens Nairametrics in a new tab)
  3. pv magazine
    UV down-shifting layers could boost TOPCon solar module energy yield by over 4% (opens pv magazine in a new tab)
  4. Offshore Energy
    North Sea operator appoints DOF for subsea decommissioning (opens Offshore Energy in a new tab)
  5. OilPrice.com
    Shell Slams Australia’s Plan to Force LNG Producers to Supply Domestic Market (opens OilPrice.com in a new tab)
  6. OilPrice.com
    Oil Prices Retreat as Saudi Arabia Pledges to Keep Exports Flowing (opens OilPrice.com in a new tab)

Source: Publisher RSS feeds (see list), updated 13 Oct 2026.

Naira reference rates

Markets
Naira per unit of foreign currency
CurrencyNaira per unit
US dollar (USD)₦1,331.44
Euro (EUR)₦1,487.39
Pound sterling (GBP)₦1,759.74
Chinese yuan (CNY)₦198.55
West African CFA franc (XOF)₦2.2674

Source: ExchangeRate-API (open access tier), updated 13 Oct 2026. Mid-market reference rates for about 160 currencies, aggregated by a commercial provider. Not central-bank official rates and not dealing rates.

Solar energy today

Seven-day outlook

Forecast daily irradiation on a horizontal surface, kWh per square metre.

  1. Nairobi 7.8
  2. Johannesburg 7.8
  3. Kano 6.1
  4. Mexico City 6.1
  5. Lagos 5.6
  6. Riyadh 5.4
  7. Abuja 5.3
  8. Houston 5.2
  9. São Paulo 5.1
  10. Dubai 4.8
  11. New Delhi 4.5
  12. Madrid 4.4
  13. Cairo 4.4
  14. Beijing 4.2
  15. Tokyo 2.9
  16. Berlin 2.5
  17. London 2.4
  18. Sydney 2.0

Source: Open-Meteo, updated 13 Oct 2026.

Nigeria’s power grid

Open the map
Map of Nigeria’s power plants and high-voltage transmission network 71 power plants mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors, sized by reported capacity, with 330 kV and 132 kV transmission lines. A full table follows the map. AbiaAbuja Federal Capital TerritoryAdamawaAkwa IbomAnambraBauchiBayelsaBenueBornoCross RiverDeltaEbonyiEdoEkitiEnuguGombeImoJigawaKadunaKanoKatsinaKebbiKogiKwaraLagosNasarawaNigerOgunOndoOsunOyoPlateauRiversSokotoTarabaYobeZamfara

Circle area shows reported capacity (MW)

  • Gas
  • Hydro
  • Solar
  • Oil, wind and other
  • 330 kV line

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