On behalf of the Federal Government, the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, committed on Tuesday to generate 20,000 megawatts of electricity during the following three years.
Adelabu asserted that the 20,000MW goal will be reached by the Bola Tinubu administration by 2026, despite the fact that the country is still having difficulty maintaining a 4,000MW electricity generation capacity.
At this year’s Nigeria Energy Summit in Lagos, Adelabu stated he had mostly diagnosed the problems and discovered that the remedies were not as challenging as people thought.
Adelabu said: “As a politician, a Minister of Power, I also have a limited amount of time to spend, and I must make impacts.
” I am determined to make impacts. I have diagnosed the issues to a large extent, and I’ve found out that the solutions are not as difficult as we all believe.
“In setting targets for ourselves, we also need to set short-term targets. My own vision is for us to increase the stored capacity of our generation to at least 20,000 megawatts in the next three years. And it doesn’t stop there.
“We should be able to evacuate and transport this power at the minimum of 80 per cent of the stored capacity to the end users of the exchange system.”
