We Should Achieve 20,000 Megawatts By 2026 – Power Minister

The Nigerian government is working towards generating 20,000 megawatts by 2026 and 60,000 megawatts of electricity by 2060.

Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, revealed this in Osogbo, Osun State during his visit to the National Control Centre (NCC) of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) on Friday.

In his words, Adelabu disclosed the short and long term plans of the ministry towards increasing power generation, transmission and distribution in Nigeria.

“Like I told you, it’s an aspiration for Nigeria to have minimum of 60,000 megawatts of power by 2060; that is 60 gigawatts. And 2030 is the medium term objective of achieving 30,000 megawatts of power.

“But like I mentioned in one of the programmes I attended, in as much as we are on course in achieving this, given the experiences of other countries who are even able to achieve over 100,000 megawatts within 40 to 50 years, this is not an ambitious target for Nigeria, we can easily achieve it.

“We have target for transmission capacity, we have target for distribution capacity and we have target for power generation capacity. By 2026, we should be able to achieve 20,000 megawatts of electricity,” Adelabu said.

He further said that two more power substations would come up in the next few months, courtesy of the presidential power initiative of the federal government.

The Minister also warned that any employee found sabotaging the efforts of government in the power sector would be made to face the music.

He revealed that a panel has been organized to investigate the cause of the recent inferno at the power substation of the TCN in Birnin Kebbi.