Tegbe Unveils roadmap to stabilise Nigeria’s power grid, flags off Energy Summit 2026

The Honourable Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, has outlined a roadmap to stabilise Nigeria’s energy grid, grow transmission capableness and pull caller concern into the sector.

He spoke astatine the opening of the Nigeria Energy Leadership Summit 2026 astatine the Landmark Centre, Lagos, themed “Strengthening Power Delivery Through Execution, Coordination and Performance.”

In his address, Tegbe said the precedence indispensable displacement from designing reforms to delivering measurable improvements successful energy supply, strategy show and marketplace sustainability.

He outlined 4 cardinal priorities: enhancing vigor zones, strengthening assemblage liquidity and sustainability, optimising existing assets, and expanding infrastructure to conscionable aboriginal demand. The model is designed to code constraints crossed generation, transmission and distribution, ensuring that investments construe into much reliable energy for households, businesses and industries.

The curate identified state proviso constraints, overstretched transmission infrastructure, organisation losses and accumulated assemblage liabilities arsenic large challenges requiring coordinated action.

To amended energy delivery, Tegbe identified 3 precedence economical vigor corridors: Lagos–Ogun, Benin–Enugu–Po...