NISO Teams Up with WAPP on Electricity Market Reforms

In its ongoing efforts to reform the Nigerian Electricity Market, the Nigerian Independent System Operator (NISO) has organised a two-day interactive forum with the West African Power Pool (WAPP) to develop its Market Management System (MMS).

Declaring the programme open at NISO’s corporate headquarters in Utako, Abuja, on Thursday, April 2, 2026, the Managing Director/CEO of NISO, Engr. Abdu Bello Mohammed, FNSE, stated that the electricity market is currently in a transitional phase, during which all processes will be fully automated.

He noted that NISO’s vision is to develop Nigeria’s electricity market into one of the best in the world. To achieve this, the organisation is benchmarking with WAPP to ensure seamless implementation of a Telemetry, Energy Management System (EMS) and Real Time market system.

The Executive Director, Market Operations, Engr. Dr. Edmund Eje, explained that the technical session was designed to equip market operators with knowledge of WAPP market administration and the adaption of automated energy trading platform. 

He added that WAPP has developed a robust market platform as widely operationalized  in more advanced electricity markets hence the decision to collaborate with the organization to develop NISO’s MMS.

In his presentation, the WAPP representative, Engr. Chukwuemeka Chiatula, Group Lead at the ERERA- controlled WAPP Market, took the participants through the various transitional phases of the regional electricity market, the customer journey, and the organisation’s efforts to see that the Nigerian national grid goes through the final synchronization which will offer the generators in Nigeria a wider market transactions.

While highlighting the technical requirements and protocols required for the Real-Time trading Platform, Engr Chiatula added that NISO as a Corporate Member of WAPP, can always leverage on what WAPP had done to advance its Market Operations.