Adebayo Adelabu, the Minister of Power has announced that the President Tinubu administration, in the last one year has achieved a 20-hour daily supply of electricity to over 40 per cent of Nigerians. Thus he said is part of the President’s renewed hope agenda to galvanise the nation’s economy.
 

Adelabu who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, said that the feat is a result of many of the revolutionary measures being undertaken by the Power Minister, with the support of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who according to him, consistently advocated that Nigeria can be great and achieve breakthrough in industrialization, through a stable and consistent power supply.
 

According to Adelabu, upon resumption as the minister of power, the nation had an installed generation capacity of 13,000 megawatts. Still, it was only producing, transmitting, and distributing about 4,000 megawatts. Still, the ministry within the last one year has achieved power generation of over 5,500 megawatts, adding that efforts were ongoing further to increase this record by the end of 2024.
 

“At that time, there was an epileptic supply. Almost all residential and commercial customers could not be guaranteed 12-15 hours of supply. Additionally, the adoption of renewable energy was skeletal in terms of solar or wind sources of energy.

“Between then and now, which is about a year, there has been significant improvement. Today, our installed capacity is over 14,000 megawatts of power due to the addition of the newly commissioned Zungeru hydroelectric power plant and improved capacity of some of the existing power plants.