Solar Energy: FG to inject 60.82MW into national grid amid electricity supply challenges

The Federal Government is acceptable to inject a cumulative full of 60.82 megawatts (MW) of solar-generated energy into the country’s nationalist grid amid powerfulness proviso challenges.

This comes arsenic the Federal Government connected Wednesday commenced the operation of a 13.92 megawatt-peak, MWp interconnected hybrid star mini-grid task successful Yobe State.

Before the Yobe initiative, the authorities had already developed 46.9MW of powerfulness infrastructure crossed 5 different states.

DAILY POST reports that the Federal Government had earlier commissioned a 20MW mini-grid successful Egume, Kogi State; an 11.9MWp task successful Ogu-Bolo, Rivers State; and a 10MW installation successful Kofare, Adamawa State.

Similarly, the authorities had earlier commenced renewable vigor projects comprising a 3.5MW mini-grid successful Ambursa, Kebbi State, and a 1.5MW task successful Pankshin, Plateau State.

Commenting connected the development, the Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency, Abba Abubakar Aliyu, noted that interconnected hybrid mini-grids are engineered to integrate seamlessly with existing organisation networks.

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