The Federal Government is planning to develop independent super grids for each of the 19 northern states to enhance electricity supply in the region.
Mr. Adebayo Adelabu, the Minister of Power revealed this after meeting with President Bola Tinubu, who directed that repair works be expedited to restore power to the northern region, which has been experiencing a blackout due to vandalism of transmission lines.
According to Mr Adelabu, “The world is moving. This is the 21st century. And we believe that the most effective way of supplying uninterrupted, functional, stable, and reliable electricity to the northern part of Nigeria is through our distributed power model, whereby each of the northern states will have an embedded utility solar scale, solar source.
All the 20 states will be insulated and immuned from each other. And we have actually made progress in this, as we have interested contractors and financiers that are ready to install 100 megawatts each for each of the 20 northern states, which is scalable to 50 megawatts at first, then upgraded to 100 megawatts.”
The Minister of Power shed more light on the solutions that have been mapped out by the current administration to solve the lingering power challenges in the country.
“We are working on establishing what is called a super grid, which is a backup of failover optional grids. If the national grid has a problem, there will be an alternative route through which power can be transmitted. That is what we are working on.
Then lastly is the fact that the world has moved beyond having a centralized grid. Grid must be regionalized. We must have state grids so that each of the regional grids will be insulated from each other.
A problem in a particular line will not affect the others. That is what we are working on. Until that is done, we believe that we’ll keep managing what we have and reduce the frequent occurrence of the grid disturbance,” He said.
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