The Federal Government is planning the construction of renewable power plants to boost electricity generation across the nation.
The Minister for Power, Adebayo Adelabu, disclosed this during a meeting with foreign agencies.
According to Adelabu’s media aide, Bolaji Tunji, on Friday, the minister was quoted to have highlighted that the creation of renewable power plants would be one of his strategies to ensure incremental improvement in national power supply.
A renewable power plant is a facility that generates electricity from a renewable energy source, such as solar, wind, water, or geothermal energy.
These types of power plants harness the power of the sun, wind, water, or the earth’s heat to produce electricity without using fossil fuels like coal, oil, or natural gas.
Tunji added that the minister is focusing on distributed power by intensifying efforts to raise the volume of renewable energy to national capacity, with focus on developing small hydropower plants along the 26 small dams in the county.
He noted that solar options are being considered for the northern part of the country, including the use of windmills to generate power offshore along the coastal part of the country.
The minister said further that the main problem of the sector is liquidity and funding.
The development partners including representatives from the European Union, the United States Agency for International Development, the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, the World Bank, the Japan International Cooperation Agency, the African Development Bank, and others were said to have assured Adelabu of continued support because his briefing had given a clear direction on how to resolve some of the issues in the power sector.
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