Solar energy Nigeria’s fastest path to solving electricity challenges – REA

The Managing Sirector of the Rural Electrification Agency, REA, Abba Aliyu, has declared that distributed renewable vigor represents Nigeria’s fastest way to sustained economical maturation and solving the country’s energy proviso challenges.

Aliyu disclosed this astatine an lawsuit successful Lagos wherever helium emphasized that Nigeria’s concern competitiveness volition hinge wholly connected its quality to physique reliable, affordable, and scalable energy systems.

“Scaling mini-grids and star infrastructure for concern accumulation is not astir choosing betwixt the grid and off-grid systems.

“It is astir designing a smarter powerfulness strategy that uses each viable instrumentality available. Nigeria needs the nationalist grid. Nigeria needs gas. Nigeria needs hydropower. Nigeria needs solar. Nigeria needs storage. Nigeria needs embedded generation. Nigeria needs mini-grids. Nigeria needs backstage capital. Nigeria needs section manufacturing. Nigeria needs data. And Nigeria needs coordination,” helium said.

Aliyu noted that the renewable vigor marketplace of the aboriginal volition look radically antithetic from the powerfulness architecture of the past.

“A mini-grid that powers homes changes lives. But a mini-grid that powers homes, a atom mill, a acold room, a welding cluster, a clinic, a integer services hub, and a marketplace chang...