Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Dr Maruf Tunji Alausa, has said university campuses across the country will be taken off the national grid through the deployment of solar-powered mini-grids.
Alausa disclosed this in a recent interview, noting that
off-grid power solutions in Nigerian educational institutions are improving the
standard of learning.
According to him, persistent failures of the national grid
have historically undermined academic stability, crippled scientific research
and lowered the overall standard of campus life in Nigerian universities.
He explained that providing a dependable learning
environment requires taking universities off conventional transmission lines
entirely.
The minister said transitioning tertiary institutions to
dedicated solar mini-grids would protect lecture halls and student
accommodation from recurring power outages.
“We are taking our campuses off the national grid with
dedicated solar power. You cannot build a modern university system where
students cannot read at night, laboratories lose power in the middle of
experiments, and hospitals attached to our universities are forced to run on
noisy, expensive diesel generators,” he said.
“The burden of electricity tariffs has been one of the
heaviest strains on university finances. Instead of universities sinking
hundreds of millions into electricity bills every single month, funds that
should be expanding faculties or buying equipment, we are solving this
structurally with clean, captive energy that operates around the clock,” he
added.
Under the Federal Government’s Energizing Education
Programme, solar energy solutions are being deployed to at least 25
universities and teaching hospitals across Nigeria.
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