“Leading All of Africa”: Nigeria’s Path to a Renewable Energy Revolution

In November, the government partnered with Sun Africa LLC, a US-based renewable energy solutions provider, to launch a $2.2 billion initiative to deliver 961 megawatts of peaking (MWp) photovoltaic (PV) power generation infrastructure ) and 455 megawatt hours (MWh) of battery energy storage systems.

“Nigeria is leading the way across Africa in bringing distributed renewable energy to communities that have not yet benefited from cheap, affordable and reliable access to electricity,” Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, shared with FORBES AFRICA in the country’s commercial capital, Lagos, during a recent three-day visit .