The Federal Government yesterday said that it
plans to grow Nigeria’s power generation capacity to 10,000MW by the fourth
quarter of 2013.
In a presentation on the power sector made in
Abuja to the Presidential Action Committee on Power (PACP), the Minister of
State for Power, Hajiya Zainab Kuchi, said the government plans to achieve the
10,000MW target by diversifying Nigeria’s energy mix to include other renewable
sources of energy.
She however did not give a breakdown on the
amount of electricity that will be generated from the various renewable energy
sources available to Nigeria. Nigeria currently generates and distributes
4,517.6MW of electricity, meaning that an extra 5,482.4MW would have to be
generated to meet the 10,000MW target by the fourth quarter.
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