Nigeria requires more than 100,000MW to end its electricity crisis, Nnaji.
Prof. Barth Nnaji, a former Minister of Power, claims that Nigeria requires approximately 100,000 megawatts of power to alleviate the country’s ongoing power crisis.
Nnaji said this while speaking to journalists in Enugu on Friday on the state of the country’s electricity industry.
He linked the sector’s problems to the supply value chain, noting that the country’s generation, transmission, and distribution of power were all problematic.
All of this, he argued, had rendered it impossible to provide adequate electricity to the customers.
“With a population of over 200 million people, Nigeria requires more than 100,000 megawatts of power and infrastructure,” he stated.
Nnaji claimed that his Aba-based Geometric Power Ltd has the potential to power the metropolis in six months.
“We’re putting meters to help customers and electrical suppliers work out their differences.”
“I favor the unbundling of the electricity industry,” he stated, adding that states should be able to control and manage their own power supply.
According to him, the company has made significant investments in power distribution in Aba in order to improve distribution.
He went on to say that distribution companies have to follow suit in order to increase electricity supply.
