The Federal Government has allocated ₦100bn in the 2025 Budget awaiting passage in the National Assembly to provide solar mini-grids in selected government institutions, federal universities and their teaching hospitals.
The Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Abba Aliyu, said once the budget is passed and signed into law by President Bola Tinubu, his agency would begin work to provide reliable, cost-effective and climate-friendly power supply in the government institutions.
Aliyu, who was a guest on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief programme on Tuesday, said the funding comes under the National Public Sector Solarisation Initiative of the Federal Ministry of Power.
It’s “a new concept designed to reduce the cost of governance. N100bn has been allocated for it. We are going to use that funding to solarise the entire public institutions”, he said.
The REA boss said the current government analysed the amount spent by public institutions for the procurement of diesel and generating sets. “To address that, that funding is being provided for us to solarise the institutions,” he said.