About Us

About Us

Powering Nigeria and catalyzing sustainable off grid development

The Nigeria Electrification Programme (NEP) is a Federal Government (FG) initiative that is private sector driven and seeks to bridge the energy access deficit by providing electricity to households, MSMEs, educational and healthcare facilities in unserved and underserved rural communities through the deployment of mini grids, Standalone Solar Home Systems (SHS), rooftop solar, captive power plants and productive use appliances to ensure sustainability of these off-grid solutions.

176

mini grids deployed across Nigeria
7.8m

Nigerians impacted
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NEP

Objectives

The Project Development Objective is to increase access to electricity services for households and MSMEs with private sector-led distributed renewable energy generation.

The proposed project is a part of the World Bank’s comprehensive, programmatic engagement in Nigeria’s power sector to help the FGN realize its ambitious Energy Transition Plan (ETP) vision

288,000

Diesel/gasoline gensets to be replaced

237,000

MSMEs and agri-businesses to be provided with reliable electricity

21M +

Nigerians to be Impacted

NEP Achievement

7.8M+

Nigerian lives impacted with clean energy

94MW

PV Capacity deployed or installed

470,000+

Female-headed households provided with new electricity services

11,400

MSMEs provided with new and improved electricity services

1,100,000+

Households provided with new or improved electricity services

3,600+

Female-managed MSMEs provided with new and improved electricity services

Projected impact of DARES

17.5M+

Nigerian lives impacted with clean energy

465MW

PV Capacity deployed or installed

526,731

Female-headed households provided with new electricity services

236,986

MSMEs provided with new and improved electricity services

3,244,900

Households provided with new or improved electricity services

71,096

Female-managed MSMEs provided with new and improved electricity services

Projects across Nigeria

Projects across Nigeria

Trending news

Trending news

testimonaials

Nigeria’s plans for a greener and cleaner economy. Our comprehensive approach and pragmatic action supported by our technical partners, is poised to become a blueprint for countries aspiring to develop their markets for sustainable growth.

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Bola Ahmed Tinubu

President of Nigeria
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Access to energy is a fundamental right and not a privilege because electricity is the oxygen of economic growth. We are currently implementing power sector initiatives and reforms focused on expanding our grid, increasing generation capacity, and deploying renewable energy to rural and underserved populations. As a nation, our resolve is to take proactive steps to diversify our energy sources, reduce our carbon footprints and ensure a more sustainable future for generations to come. And this is a pioneering project in terms of hybridizing power in solar and hydro

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Kashim Shettima

Vice President of Nigeria
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Nigeria is blessed with abundant energy resources and we are harnessing this to drive our energy transition target. Our power sector has undergone profound reforms aimed at ensuring reliable, affordable, functional, and sustainable energy for all Nigerians.

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CHIEF ADEBAYO ADELABU

Minister of Power
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Many countries around the world have gone through an urban led development model, which automatically creates challenges of reaching services to the last place in rural areas. Ideas like this change that model because we don’t rely on some very expensive grids to reach ever village but empower the local village with local facilities to change the lives of local people.

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Ajay Banga

World Bank President
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Mission 300: “this isn’t just a target; it’s a revolution for communities that have long been in the dark”.

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Akinwumi Adesina

AFDB President
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Energy poverty isn’t just an inconvenience; it is a barrier to progress. Yet, it is this stark reality that drives the present government, through the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), to push forward with one clear mission: To bring hope to the farthest corners of Nigeria

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ABBA ALIYU

MD/CEO Rural electrification agency
testimonaials

Our mission is to electrify Nigeria, Improve offgrid solutions and Our goal is to improve the living conditions of our citizens, particularly in rural com munities, by ensuring that citizen has access to electricity across all the critical sectors of the economy

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OLUFEMI AKINYELURE

Head Nigerian Electrification Programme (HNEP)