Nigeria’s industrialization ambition is caught up in a complex web. At the center of the numerous challenges that stall economic growth and development in Nigeria is the extremely poor level of energy access. The energy needed to support quality health care delivery, improved education and better farming practices is simply absent. With millions of households and businesses getting less than 4 hours of electricity per day, Nigeria is in urgent need of every help it can summon.
Our list of Top 50 projects under development comes in preparation for the two-day event in Nigeria during the 25-26 of April. The Solar Future Nigeria concentrates all major stakeholders in the country and addresses all forms of solar applications ranging from utility scale to pico solar.
On 15th March 2017, Solarplaza organized the webinar “Currency Risk and Convertibility Issues for Nigerian Solar/RE Projects”. The entire video recording of the webinar and the speakers’ slides can be freely accessed here.
Solar Nigeria Programme (SN), a programme funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) says it will provide additional grant of £13 million to help reputable companies involved in solar energy in Nigeria, The Guardian reports.
Over the past few years, some bitcoin enthusiasts have found ways to use renewable energy sources such as solar power to mitigate electrical costs associated with mining the decentralized cryptocurrency.
Arrow Capital, a US based firm and the University of Ilorin have concluded arrangement for the construction of 500MW solar power plant in Nigeria worth US$2.3M. The project is expected to be delivered in the next six months.
On-grid solar will take off on great scale in Nigeria due to the failure of legacy fossil energy sources. 14 Solar Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) have been signed recently, being the first set of many more to come, and there’s a good chance of a solar power auction to follow.
BLOOMBERG - GreenWish Partners, a Paris-based independent power producer, will invest $280 million to build solar-power plants in Nigeria that are expected to start producing electricity in the first quarter of next year.
Last week the EU’s Africa Renewable Energy Initiative announced 14 new renewable energy projects across the continent, representing 1.7GW, with a total potential investment of almost €4 billion (US$4.2 billion).
Off-grid solar company Azuri Technologies announced Tuesday that it has reached the mark of 100,000 sales of its PayGo solar home systems in sub-saharan Africa.
BLOOMBERG - Nigeria, Africa’s biggest oil exporter, may be about to turn sunward to generate more of its power.
With Nigeria’s low crude oil refining capacity and a troubled supply chain for the import of petroleum products, the strong and habitual dependence of businesses and households on diesel and petrol-fired captive generators is clearly becoming unsustainable. However, up until now this has been the only viable option for power access in a country with terribly outdated grid infrastructure.
TODAY - Plans are underway to install solar powered electricity in villages across Kwara state.
Meanwhile, the state government has also announced plans to release N900m to contractors for ongoing projects next Monday.
To fully understand the inherent characteristics of the Nigerian solar market, Solarplaza organized the webinar: Nigeria's Solar Market: Opportunities and Challenges in an Evolving Landscape.
NIGERIA ELECTRICITY - The surprise was finding that people dependent on candles, batteries, kerosene and fuel for generators in countries without a secure supply of electricity spend more on power than solar options.
REUTERS - A “solar revolution” is coming to Africa, comparable in scale and importance to the rapid surge in mobile phone use on the continent two decades ago, predicts the head of the International Renewable Energy Agency.
ESI AFRICA - The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is calling for reputable companies to tender for the supply and installation of 20KVA inverter/solar panels in Abuja, FCT; Irrua, Edo State.
Ambiguous and unfriendly regulations have been the typical hurdle in some power sectors across Africa. The recent movement for the promotion of cleaner and more modern energy in Africa has led to significant reforms in several markets, Nigeria being one of them. The regulatory space around solar power investments in Nigeria has also seen some transformation, which has served as an incentive for the recent growth in both off grid and on grid solar power developments. The work is far from complete but the willingness of the Nigerian government and policy makers to further develop the space is evident.
ESI AFRICA - A collaboration between Oriental Renewable Solutions and GreenWish Partners, seeks to develop a 50MW solar plant in Northern Nigeria.
With the impact of energy costs on the productive sector becoming unbearable, exploring clean, sustainable alternative energy source has become attractive to operators in the value-chain industry, especially if they hope to remain competitive in the global market.
