- Federal universities and teaching hospitals nationwide to generate electricity to decentralise the national grid.
- The Rural Electrification Agency (REA) spearheads the initiative to address persistent power supply issues.
The Federal Government has unfolded its plan for federal universities and teaching hospitals nationwide to generate electricity as part of the measures to unbundle the national grid.
The Executive Director of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Ayo Adegboyega, disclosed this plan while fielding questions from reporters at WO Lawal praying ground in Ibadan. He said the project is one of the numerous initiatives his agency is embarking upon to solve the age-old epileptic power supply nationwide.
He said, “Many projects are in the pipeline, including providing mini-grids and solar panel power for households nationwide. “Some projects unbundle the national grids by moving the federal universities and university teaching hospitals into the captured power.”
“This is expected to enhance the generation of their power supply, which will be realised in the next few months. President Bola Tinubu will commission one of such projects at the University of Abuja in the next few weeks.
“Many projects in the pipeline will enhance an uninterrupted power supply that Nigerians will soon enjoy. It is better to dig deeper into the root causes of epileptic power supply than to scratch the surface.”