The Minister of Power, Aliyu Abubakar, says the Federal Government and 10 states are currently working to produce 2,000 megawatts of off-grid electricity through solar energy sources.
Abubakar revealed that Nigeria’s major hydropower plants, Kainji and Jebba, were currently producing only 130MW of electricity to the grid out of their joint installed capacity of about 1,300MW.
He says they have policies around renewable sources of energy adding that they want to maintain them on the mini-grid and off-grid for the simple fact that the grid is not yet stable to take various energy mixes.