The Federal Government has signed an agreement with the European Union and the German Government to provide support worth £17.9m to fund Nigeria’s off-grid electricity project.
The project launched under the third phase of the Nigerian Energy Support Programme is to foster investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency and rural electrification.
According to the EU, the programme will enable 154,000 people to access electricity and connect 30,000 others to clean cooking gas, while eight megawatts of electricity will be generated in the third phase.
The NESP was commissioned in 2013 as a technical assistance programme co-funded by the European Union and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Power.
Speaking at the launch and steering committee meeting of NESP III, the Head of Section Green and Digital Economy at the European Union Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Inga Stefanowicz, said achieving a cleaner future is the business of all stakeholders.
