The Minister of Power, Works and
Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has advised Nigerians to embrace solar energy to
reduce pressure on the national grid.
Fashola gave the advice in Lagos
at the launch of a book titled “Solar Electricity Generation for off-grid
communities in Nigeria”, written by Oladele Amoda, the Managing Director, Eko
Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC).
Fashola also advised Nigerians to
invest in solar energy, which he said remained energy for the future.
“Solar energy is very important
to reach Nigerians living in various communities that are difficult to reach by
the Disco.
“We are committed to incremental
power and policies that will drive the power sector; Solar is one of the
renewable energy,” he said.
He used the opportunity to also
to announce that Nigeria’s power generation has jerked from 2600MW to
7000MWbetween 2015 to 2017.
The minister, however, allayed fears of
Electricity Distribution Companies (Discos) over the deployment of more solar
power through mini-grids and other Federal Government initiatives aimed at
improving service in the power sector.
He commended Amoda’s initiative
in authoring a book that would address power sector challenges, adding that
Amoda was outstanding.
He said that the book
presentation was timely as power sector would start to witness dry session by
next month
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