The Federal Government has announced plans to establish an independent super grid for each of the 19 northern states.
This was disclosed by the Minister of Power, Adebayo
Adelabu, after a meeting with President Bola Tinubu on Monday in Abuja.
Recall that the northern region has experienced
blackout since October 21.
This prolonged blackout has caused significant concern among
stakeholders across the country.
Adelabu stated that the President has ordered that repair
works be sped up to restore power to the northern part of Nigeria.
He said: “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 a
distributed power model whereby each of the northern states will have an
embedded utility solar scale source.
“All the 20 states will be insulated and immune from each
other.
“We have made progress in this as we have interested
contractors and financials that are ready to install 100 megawatts each for
each of the 20 northern states which scalable to 50 megawatts at first and then
upgraded to 100 megawatts.
“We are working on establishing a super grid which is a
backup of an optional grid. If the national grid has a problem, there will be
an alternative grid through which power can be transmitted.
“The world has moved beyond having a central grid; grids
must be regionalized. We must have state grids so that each of the regionalized
grids can be insulated from each other so that a problem in a particular line
will not affect the others.”
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