The Rural Electrification Agency, REA, has announced that it provided electricity to 1.4 million Nigerians who were previously off the grid in 2023, using renewable energy sources......See Full Story>>.....See Full Story>>
According to the agency’s Managing Director, Abba Abubakar Aliyu, this achievement was made possible through a combination of traditional grid extension projects, solar mini-grid systems, solar home systems, solar street lights, and solar-powered EV charging stations.
In 2023, the REA implemented 15 mini-grid projects, generating 330 kilowatts of power and electrifying over 30 homes. Additionally, the agency installed more than 18,300 solar-powered streetlights to illuminate communities, businesses, and military barracks.
The REA has secured significant funding to support its initiatives, including a recently completed $550 million funding from development partners under the Nigeria Electrification Funding.
He explained that the project is “The biggest public sector funded project in the off grid in the world. The target of the project is to identify 17.5m Nigerians out of the 85m that do not have electricity access to give them power.”
“We are very clear on how we are going to do that, 3 million Nigerians will be identified using the isolated mini-grids, 1.5 million Nigerians with interconnected mini-grids and about 12.5 million Nigerians with both a mesh grid and solar homes system.”
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